Offaly drink driver jailed after being found six times over the limit
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A DRIVER who was nearly six times over the legal alcohol limit was sentenced to three months in prison and banned from the road for eight years.
Judge Catherine Staines imposed the sentence after being told that Declan Maloney, with addresses at Kilbrook, Tullamore and Castlebar, Co Mayo had 26 previous convictions, including two for drink-driving.
The 46-year-old man had a concentration of 111 micrograms of alcohol in his breath when he was stopped by Garda Ronan Maher at Ard na Greine, Cloncollig, Tullamore on March 4 last.
Teenager robbed his social worker s car to go on a jolly
The 17-year-old pleaded guilty. By Sonya McClean Wednesday 5 May 2021, 8:15 PM May 5th 2021, 8:15 PM 28,458 Views 0 Comments
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A TEENAGER WHO, with the help of a friend, robbed the car of his social worker to go on “a jolly” has had three years detention deferred for a year.
Maurice Coffey SC, defending, said it was “quite clearly a plan that was hatched between the pair” to go on “a jolly” that was “not quite Thelma and Louise”.
He accepted that his client used violence to remove the woman from the vehicle. He described it as “a shocking incident” and said it was lucky the woman had not been hurt.
He added that calling the guards wasn’t the first thing he tried to stop their frequent house parties.
“I’ve very much come down the stairs and been like: ‘Lads, it’s Level 5 lockdown, cop on’,” he said. “I’m working in a shop; I’m helping old ladies with their shopping.”
“I came down here one night - oh my God - there were 20 people downstairs, I mean the size of this place, pushing past people, coughing up on you, and they’re all drunk.”
“And what you got was ‘sorry, sorry, sorry - it won’t happen again, we understand’. The next night, party again, the very next night.”
Motorists have been urged drivers to take extra care after a car skidded off the road and plunged into the River Deel in Co Limerick.
Two gardaí waded into the freezing water to rescue the driver who had become trapped in her car due to strong currants in the river.
The woman, who wishes to remain anonymous, thanked her rescuers, gardaí Michael Hally and Andrew Maher, as well as the ambulance and fire service personnel who attended the scene.
“Without their help, who knows what could have happened to me,” she said.
Gardai in Rathkeale received a report shortly after 7pm on Saturday that a car had gone into the river in Newbridge, Askeaton.