Corkman taking drug-driving test told gardaí: 'I will definitely fail. I was in Amsterdam'

On the date of the offence, gardaí were following accused but were not in active pursuit of him, when he was observed overtaking a car on a continuous white line on the approach to a bad bend, court told

Accused's oral fluid test was positive for cannabis, court heard. File picture: Robbie Reynolds

A man stopped on the roadside by gardaí so he could provide an oral fluid test told officers he knew he was going to fail it as he had been in Amsterdam the previous weekend.

Colm O’Regan, of 32 Newbridge Park, Skibbereen, had been spotted driving erratically by gardaí near Ballinscarty in West Cork.