Brennan to press gardaí on points as deaths surge

TRANSPORT Minister Seamus Brennan is to ask gardaí to step up the enforcement of the penalty points system amid growing concern about the rising death toll on the roads.

The minister will meet senior gardaí this week following another weekend of carnage which left seven people dead, five in the Republic and two in the North.

Mr Brennan is concerned at the rise in road fatalities over the last two months. The death toll is up 35% on the same period last year.