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Offaly drink driver jailed after being found six times over the limit Reporter: ');  '); 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, Tul...

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 Image: PA Image: PA 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 betw...

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 ve...

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...