Gardaí made 11 drink and drug driving arrests across Cork county over the Bank Holiday weekend
The Echo reports that seven people have been charged with drink driving and four with drug driving while 15 vehicles were seized for having no tax or insurance over the long weekend.
Gardaí revealed that one checkpoint on the M8 outside Mitchelstown, operating between 2pm and 4pm last Friday, saw one person arrested for drink driving and three arrested for driving under the influence of drugs,
New advances in Garda technology mean that the registration plates of vehicles approaching Garda checkpoints are automatically scanned now, and by the time the car is stopped the attending gardaí know whether or not the vehicle is taxed or insured.
