Cork motorist laughed at gardaí and refused to give urine sample after crash

Man disqualified from driving for four years and fined €500.

Gardaí said the man refused on three occasions to give blood/urine samples.

A motorist who crashed his car and was investigated for suspected drink driving was asked to provide a urine sample in the garda station but he threw the jug into the toilet and laughed at the garda.

Gerard Walsh, aged 47, formerly of 4 The Lawn, Gleann Na Rí, Tower, Co Cork, and now of Bakers Road, Gurranabraher, Cork, was convicted by Judge Marian O’Leary on the charge of failing or refusing to give a sample of blood or urine as required by gardaí in the investigation of suspected drink driving.