REVEALED: Kildare has fifth highest number of drink-driving arrests in 2023

A total of 164 drivers have been arrested for drink-driving offences across Kildare so far in 2023, according to official figures. 

This is the fifth-highest total of all 27 Garda Divisions. 

For the whole of 2022, 240 people were arrested while the equivalent figure for 2021 was 230.

The data was given to TD Peadar Tóibín who asked the Minister for Justice how many drink driving arrests were made in each county or by Garda division in the country over the past ten years.

The highest figures for 2023 so far were in:

Galway - 195

Cork City- 173

Donegal - 170

Dublin West - 166.

The information is based upon operational data from the PULSE system as was available between January 1 and on August 23, 2023.