More than 100 motorists were arrested on suspicion of drink driving each day over the Easter weekend.

Assistant Garda Commissioner Eddie Rock said that between the St Patrick Day and Easter weekends some 1,100 people were stopped because of possible drink driving offences.

He said that the number of fatalities on the road had been reduced. He also said there had been increased Garda enforcement which had a positive knock-on effect in clamping down on criminal gangs.