A senior garda has warned that drinking coffee while driving can be a dangerous distraction, as Christmas road safety figures show 765 arrests for drink or drug driving and 26,500 motorists detected for speeding. #VMNews

What's an absolute load of bollix.... It's just the precursor to another revenue for the government..

Drivers enjoy a feeling of impunity as the chance of being caught and facing consequences is negligible Levels of enforcement by @GardaTraffic and the courts need to significantly increase to hold those that break our laws accountable and in doing so have a deterrent effect

This is utter nonsense.

Nanny shyte. That only applies while learning, when driving becomes an autonomous skill, things like sipping coffee, listening to the radio or chatting to a passenger have little effect.

No one accidentally goes 137km/h over the limit, because they were distracted by their coffee. Stop being ridiculous.

@PaulQuinnNews They’ll lose buy-in from people by being over the top. People understand why phone use is a distraction while driving. It’s simply false to say that drinking a coffee is dangerous.

Ireland averages 34 road deaths per million a year compared to the average in Europe of 46 making it safer than the average. Quit the bullshit.

I always see cops drinking coffee while driving

I don’t get why there’s a big deal made about “road safety” around Xmas etc.. should we not have a constant gardaí presence on our roads?.. if motorists expect or are aware of a large garda presence all the time it might change their attitude/behaviour.. jmo

Drinking coffee while driving is what most people do, given that they have a four round commute- because illegal asylum applicants have occupied all accommodation anywhere close to thier employment?

Well that garda can fuck off

Pure shit, they brought down the speed limits in 2025, slow drivers and bad drivers cause alot more accidents than speed

Why did he have a coffee? Testing for that next I suppose, ?????

Roads not fit for purpose is dangerous. Take a look at the N17 section between Mayo and Sligo. Focus on getting infrastructure for major roads up to standard. 6 inch gap between oncoming traffic is more of an issue than drinking coffee!!

So is changing the radio station.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣FFS

Why do all cars come with cup holders then ?

They want to Control every aspect of your Life.

Is drinking water a dangerous distraction too? 🙄

He has a point, in fairness, albeit a fairly marginal one. Everything one does in a car, other than driving, is by definition a distraction, whether it be listening to the radio, talking to other passengers or sipping a coffee.

wokism gone mad

It is if you're a retard.

Never seen one.

Again how many are foreners this is never side

Drinking irish coffee you mean ? Ffs 🤦🏻‍♂️

Too many distractions with the level of technology in new cars. Yeah sure coffee is a problem.....

Have to run radio down to see lol

Apparently phones and drinking coffee are the big dangers… not the reckless driving everyone sees daily and no one enforces, it would require actually policing the roads… but sure, let’s just keep crying about it..

I saw a cop driving a Garda with a hot coffee in her hand in Cork City yesterday...and driving fast on Patrick's Street

How about investigating the deaths of all of those injured or murdered from the Covid jabs?

What about smoking?

Why not do a story on that foreign national who stabbed those children.