“Sometimes you literally take your life in your hands on Irish roads,” Judge Colm Roberts declared on January 16th. “Speed kills.”He was speaking about the case of Kerry TD Michael Cahill who was caught doing 190km/h on the M8 near Mitchelstown on March 13th last year. Last year, 190 people were killed on Ireland’s roads, the biggest number in more than a decade. He would probably be alive today had he had not been enforcing the driving laws laid down by the legislature in the Dáil. Sympathy is a common thread in the travails of both Cahill and Keaveney.

Source: The Irish Times January 30, 2026 21:51 UTC