Senior gardaí 'very worried' at surge in arrests of people driving under the influence

At a roads policing event in West Dublin, Garda Superintendent Stephen McCauley said that, despite an ongoing safety campaign, the number of arrests of people operating vehicles while intoxicated has increased exponentially since the start of December, with 170 such arrests made in the last week.

Senior gardaí are "very worried" at the surge in arrests of people driving under the influence of both drugs and alcohol, and also that "people are not listening" to the Christmas road safety campaign.

In the last week, six more people have died on the roads. This brings total fatalities for 2025 to 184 so far.