Man who led gardaí on high-speed motorway chase with his two children in the backseat is jailed
The 34-year-old Dublin man, who can’t be named to protect the identity of his children, has 226 previous convictions.
The 34-year-old Dublin man, who can’t be named to protect the identity of his children, has 226 previous convictions.
He had been travelling in his Bentley Continental GT in west Dublin when he was stopped by gardaí.
Desmond Wisley was charged yesterday evening with dangerous driving at the embassy and criminal damage to its gates.
Two gardaí were hospitalised after their car collided with a vehicle they were pursuing in the early hours of Sunday morning.
The driver failed to stop the car when Gardaí requested and a pursuit was launched.
Paulina Galantkiewicz (34) told the trial that she “basically panicked” after realising her car had collided with someone.
The car was seen travelling at high speed and occasionally on the wrong side of the road.
The victim suffered a head injury and is now 50% deaf in one ear and has lost his sense of smell.
He told gardai he thought he had hit a kerb.
John McDonagh took off at speed at a garda checkpoint in Dublin last year.
The incident ended when the car hit a gate on a farm in Co Cork.
The 19-year-old was killed when his motorbike collided with Anne Sacoolas’ vehicle in England last August.
The woman was a passenger in one of the vehicles when a collision occurred between the two cars.
The motorist was driving through an area of road works on the N7 when caught by gardaí.
The couple’s only child has said that today’s sentence was not justice.
Over the 24-hour period, gardaí and GoSafe checked a total of 195,768 vehicles.
A 24-hour speed enforcement operation got underway at 7am today.
In a special sitting of Nenagh District Court, the man received a four month suspended sentence.
Between 1996 and 2018, there have been nine fatalities on that stretch of the N4.
He was arrested at the scene for dangerous driving and charged for court.
Both Brendan Donnelly and his friend Lee Salkeld were killed instantly when a drunk driver ploughed into their car.
The accused had 164 previous convictions, mainly for road traffic offences, at the time of his arrest in 2016.
The businessman says that the driving that led to his convictions was ‘inexcusable’.
The driver was arrested after damaging a Garda motorcycle and a car near Clonroche.
Car passengers Gemma Nolan, Charmaine Carroll, Niamh Doyle, and Aisling Middleton died almost instantly in the collision.
Dayna Kearney (22) of Crossneen, Carlow has pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving causing death.
The claim was made before the High Court by lawyers representing Luigi Forte.
The video has been shared widely across social media and on messaging apps.
The postman, who is visually impaired, can attend the event before starting his five-year jail term.
Vanessa Siatka was killed in the Phoenix Park in 2015, a year before her brother was born.
The man later appeared in court, charged with dangerous driving.
The teenage boys were killed on Friday after being struck by an Audi A5.
A garda pursuit ended when the Laois man lost control of his car and crashed into a garda car.
The driver was issued with a fixed charge notice for driving without reasonable consideration.
Fingal County Council is urging motorists in the vicinity of local schools to slow down.
Michael McNamara is contesting all charges.
Eugene McNamara was killed while walking along a footpath in Ennis last October.
A judge said Jamie Marshall’s driving was “a very serious threat to the public”.
Anthony O’Sullivan appeared in Naas District Court this week.
The Court of Appeals has said it “would not be in the public interest” to send 19-year-old Eric Ryan to prison eight months after his initial sentencing.