One motorist arrested seven times on suspicion of driving while intoxicated
Highest alcohol level found in blood in 2023 was 439mg/100ml - almost nine times over the legal limit
Medical Bureau of Road Safety
New efforts to tackle repeat offenders urged after 36 arrested three times last year for drink- and drug-driving
Youngest arrested driver in 2022 was 14 years old while oldest was 96
‘Deeply concerning’ trend as road deaths up 72% on last year
Gardaí and RSA issue urgent road safety appeal for Easter bank holiday weekend
Garda suspended after crashing official car and failing breath test
Force awaiting result of second sample taken from man, aged in his 30s, after M1 collision
Spike in people caught driving while on cocaine after State entered first lockdown
Cannabis remains most commonly detected substance by gardaí targeting drug-driving
Drug driving arrests double in first half of the year, figures show
Numbers held for drink driving increase during lockdown despite sharp drop in traffic
Gardaí conducted 612 roadside ’drug-driving’ tests last year
New regime introduced in April allows drivers to be tested for illegal drugs
Garda breath test scandal: How did we get here?
New report into false testing figures is the latest instalment in a lengthy saga
Drug driving test device does not meet temperature requirement
Roadside kit used to test motorists will not function if temperature is below 4 degrees
Intoxicated driving arrests on rise since breath test scandal
More people were arrested for driving under influence in April than any month since 2012
Roadside drug tests may tackle prescription painkiller ‘epidemic’
Emergency medicine consultant berates ‘intellectual snobbery’ around cocaine use
Garda audit boss voices breath-test concerns to Policing Authority
Senior civilian executive Niall Kelly breaks ranks with HQ over recent scandal
Ross urges public not to drive on drugs as new tests introduced
Garda to begin using new devices to test for substances including cannabis and cocaine
Fianna Fáil criticises O’Sullivan’s response to breath test issue
Working group established to oversee data quality management, commissioner says
Inability of top gardaí to answer questions ‘extraordinary’ - FF
Party asks Policing Authority to take tough line with senior Garda management
Garda itself has become ‘new Angola’ for Nóirín O’Sullivan
Commissioner is toughing it out politically, but Policing Authority won’t be fobbed off
Miriam Lord’s Week: Garda team cracks the crime of the century
Moving her lips and swinging her hips, Michelle Mulherin makes all the right moves
Nóirín O’Sullivan has little to show by way of Garda reform
Wildly exaggerated breath-test figures and long delays reveal Garda resistant to change
Fianna Fáil to seek more power for Policing Authority
Party aims to avoid supporting Sinn Féin motion of no confidence in Nóirín O’Sullivan
Gardaí’s incorrect breathalyser figures ‘may be deliberate’
Garda Commissioner Noirín O’Sullivan tells Oireachtas she is taking responsibility
Garda account of breath-test debacle wearing ever thinner
Pressure mounts on Nóirín O’Sullivan over data discrepancy and slow Garda response
Cabinet to set up external review of Garda controversies
Fitzgerald to provide statement to Dáil this evening on breath tests and FCN issues
Catch your breath: what you need to know about latest Garda crisis
Why is breath test issue such a big deal and what is likely to happen next?
Road Safety Authority had ‘suspicions’ about breath testing
New equipment will record full details of test, including location, and prevent falsification
Commissioner short on answers about false breath tests
O’Sullivan casts herself as solution, not the problem, in getting to bottom of scandal
Tánaiste declines to ask Garda Commissioner to resign
Garda Commissioner expected to give a detailed explanation within the next 48 hours
Garda Commissioner’s future hangs on more detailed statement
Nóirín O’Sullivan likely to face questioning from Oireachtas justice committee
Garda Commissioner’s statement falls far short of required answers
O’Sullivan on brink as statement on phantom breath tests leaves much unanswered
Fianna Fáil and Government on collision course over Garda scandals as Noírín O’Sullivan remains under pressure
Noírín O’Sullivan statement ‘not good enough’, Fianna Fáil says as controversies mount
Garda told of breath tests issue almost three years ago
Medical Bureau of Road Safety found in 2014 Garda test numbers ‘did not add up’
Garda exaggerated drink driving breath tests by 100 per cent
Policing Authority raised concerns with Commissioner after ‘Irish Times’ report
Garda accused of ‘inflating or carelessness’ in alcohol breath test data
Policing Authority concerned gardaí ‘may feel it appropriate to inflate data’
Nóirín O’Sullivan faces public questioning over Sgt McCabe
Garda Commissioner’s meeting on Thursday with Policing Authority will be live-streamed
Call for senior gardaí to be at checkpoints for alcohol
Road safety campaigners want to ensure recording of breathalyser data is reliable
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