Dundalk District Court: Man sentenced for dangerous driving
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A 52 year old south Armagh man who denied driving through a Garda checkpoint in Dundalk without slowing down and driving dangerously in the pursuit that followed, was last week sentenced to four months at the local district court.
Judge Eirinn McKiernan was told Dermot Gregory with an address at Concession Road, Crossmaglen was found crawling through a hedge near where the car was abandoned and matched a description of the driver – who had a distinctive white moustache and was wearing a peaked cap.
During a lengthy contested hearing last Wednesday, Dundalk district court heard how two gardai had set up a checkpoint on Hoey’s Lane around 11.15 and shortly afterwards a silver Volkswagen Golf with four occupants approached from the Dublin Road direction travelling at under the 50 kilometres per hour speed limit.