A 4 year sentence handed down to a drunk driver who caused a head-on crash killing 3 people and an unborn baby in Co Monaghan has been found to be unduly lenient on appeal.
Kevin McArdle of Longfield, Carrickmacross is now facing the possibility of going back to prison having been released from jail last month.
Kevin McArdle was 3 and a half times over the legal alcohol limit and on the wrong side of the road when he crashed into a car on the Carrickmacross by-pass, 2 days after Christmas in 2010.
Two of his friends were killed along with the passenger in the other car 39 year old Roisin Connolly and her unborn daughter.
Kevin McArdle was given a 4 year sentence and disqualified from driving for 12 years at Carrickmacross Circuit Court in 2011.
The DPP has today won an appeal in which it argued that the sentence was too lenient – calling the crash an accident waiting to happen.
