Beer-drinking man stopped at Covid checkpoint in Offaly was collecting his dole
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A MAN who had attended a barbecue was accused of breaching the Covid-19 travel regulations because he had come from Borris-in-Ossory to Tullamore.
However, no penalty was imposed on Mark Lowbridge, with addresses at Main Street, Borris-in-Ossory, Co Laois and 35 Cloncollig, Tullamore, Co Offaly because Judge Catherine Staines accepted he had travelled to Tullamore to collect his dole on the same day.
Garda Brendan McSweeney told Tullamore District Court that at 8.20pm on May 6 last year, when a 5km travel limit was in place, he was operating a Covid-19 checkpoint on the N52 at Clonminch.