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Why drink drivers aren’t getting caught – with Liz Dunphy
Drink driving is on the increase in Ireland and so are road fatalities. Doctors and gardai are frustrated at complex laws that make catching drink drivers in the act far harder than it should be – and they’re demanding action that politicians just don’t want to take.High profile cases such as the tragic death of mother-of-two Sheila Dunne in Cork in 2024 and that of Patrick Murphy in Kerry in 2023 prompted emergency doctor Eoin Fogarty to write in the Irish Examiner that the three hour timeframe and legal complications around collecting a blood sample leads “to gardaí and medical staff…
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