Ten people have been arrested for drink or drug driving in Kerry in the past week.<\/p>\n
That’s according to Garda Colm Neelan of Dingle Garda Station.<\/p>\n
An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na launched the St Patrick’s Day road safety appeal<\/a> at Kerry County Council\u2019s national Safer Roads conference<\/a> in Killarney last week.<\/p>\n There, assistant commissioner for roads policing with An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na, Catharina Gunne, said 86% of those arrested for \u2018driving under the influence\u2019 of alcohol or drugs last year were men.<\/p>\n The recent RSA Driver Attitudes and Behaviour Survey (2025) found that more than one-in-ten (12%) drivers had admitted to driving after\u00a0drinking alcohol.<\/p>\n Garda Colm Neelan says there is no excuse for drink\u00a0or drug driving:<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ten people have been arrested for drink or drug driving in Kerry in the past week. That’s according…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,159479,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-350459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-ten-people-arrested","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}