Tony Toner
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114 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 17 Aug
Tony Toner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yes, I live in the city.
I've been breathalyzed about six times, I'd say.
And as a non-drinker, it is the cause of huge merriment if I have my two sons in the car.
As the next guy, they're getting breathalyzed.
to trigger their warped sense of humour.
Yeah.
Well, when I was serving, you had dedicated traffic cores in various... Every division had them.
Now it's called roads policing, which the cynics among us might look at that as just a marketing exercise.
The...
As Paddy says, if you have no fear that you're being monitored and no subsequent fear that you're likely to be stopped at a checkpoint, and bearing in mind nowadays, you can be asked for a specimen of your breath if you're involved in any incident on the road, if you're involved in a collision, you have to provide.
And it is a very daunting thing to be handed a breath analyser
and asked to provide a specimen of breath.
You have to blow consistently into it.
If you're panicked, if you're, dare I say it like me this morning, and you have a bit of a respiratory thing going on, you might find difficulty in keeping a consistent breath.
And failure or refusal means you're under arrest.
It is a very, very serious piece of legislation.
It is the most contested piece of legislation in our courts and always has been.
The procedure on behalf of the Garda, who again are officers of the board, in fulfilling stringent protocols in relation to the demand of the breadth
the demand subsequently, if it's necessary, of blood or urine should not be available.
All of those are
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