Just the guests on #JeremyVine comparing being unvaccinated to drink driving and applauding Austria…
Who let these people on TV?! pic.twitter.com/6YY4M4YlQr
— Sophie Corcoran (@sophielouisecc) December 9, 2021
This morning.
Jeremy Vine Live on ITV.
Hic.
Corkman Daniel Culhane’s erratic driving on December 16, 2020 went viral
This afternoon.
Via RTÉ News:
A drunk driver who crossed the centre line of a main road over 20 times endangering other drivers has been disqualified from driving for 20 years.
Cork Circuit Court Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin said that if he could have he would have disqualified Daniel Culhane for life.
He also sentenced the 30-year-old, with an address at Owenahincha, Rosscarbery in Co Cork, to four years in prison with one year suspended.
Meanwhile…
Culhane also admitted threatening to kill a man at Teadies Lower, producing a baseball bat while making this threat and causing criminal damage to a vehicle
Meanwhile…
Culhane also pleaded guilty to burglary at Supervalu in Dunmanway and causing criminal damage to a glass panel of a rear door….
Meanwhile..
…As well as stealing ten cans of cider at Kevin O’Leary’s garage in Bandon.
Hic.
Cork man jailed, disqualified for 20 years for drunk driving (RTÉ)
This morning.
A total of 14 blood samples – some possibly containing alcohol or even spliff – off to an unnamed white-coated boffin for analysis.
The samples were among the spoils of ‘intoxication checkpoints’ carried out over the Bank Holiday weekend by the Regional Roads Policing Unit based at Dublin Castle.
The streets are a little safer today.
Rollingnews/@GardaTraffic
Splutter.
Using the latest data from the Central Statistics Office.
Out of work mapper Omar Sarhan writes:
I did another map based on all that drink driving data that was published in the Indo/Examiner before Christmas. So broadsheeters (is that a word?) might like it. Leitrim is either very law abiding or drivers are just good at not getting caught!
YOU decide.
Previously: Many Rivers To Cross
A Fine Gael councillor, who was a strong supporter of Enda Kenny during the leadership heave, has avoided conviction for drink-driving for a second time.
In last week’s case before Longford District Court Councillor Frank Kilbride [above], a former showband star, was charged with failing to provide a breath sample at Longford Garda Station on March 24 last year. The case was dismissed because he was not given options to provide blood or urine samples.
In 2007, Mr Kilbride was charged with careless driving and failing to provide a breath or urine sample after a traffic accident near Granard. Gardaí said they had had to take evasive action in their patrol car to avoid a collision with a car approaching on the wrong side of the road. They said they followed it and moments later found the car the councillor was driving was lying on its roof.
Councillor Kilbride who resigned from Fine Gael last July over the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill and subsequently rejoined the party, hosts his own weekly country music show on Sky 191 and has inspired a tribute song to his driving escapades.
Good times.
The Fine Gael councillor (and showband legend) who gets off over a second drink-driving incident (Jennifer Bray,Aisling Kiernan/Irish Daily Mail) [not available online]
Any excuse for the unborn babbies.
Longford Councillor resigns from Fine Gael (Shannonside Radio, July 2013)
A County Galway vintners’ chief and County Councillor has advocated a review of the drink driving legislation which would allow customers to drink two or three pints and drive home safely. The publican said that it was up to the individuals concerned but he felt happy that some people could drive home safely with three pints on them and that there were those that couldn’t. But Timmy Broderick said that there was no way a person should lose their job or their livelihood if they were caught and prosecuted for drinking and driving.
“The legislation with regard to drink driving has to be changed if pubs are to survive. At the moment the owners of rural pubs cannot make a living and they are opening at times that is reflective of the trade that they do. It might cost a couple to come out on a night and possibly spend €60 between them on a few drinks and a taxi home but it is a lot safer than having a couple of bottles of whiskey which they could get for the same amount,” Timmy Broderick added.
(Fine Gael Cork County Council Councillor Michael Hegarty).
The car turned into the car park of a church and the driver, Mr Hegarty got out and ran from gardaí
…but Garda Cillian Barry gave chase and saw the man jump over a wall of the church yard and run to a derelict area where he found him hiding in bushes.
Garda Barry said he detected a smell of alcohol from Mr Hegarty and noticed his speech was slurred.
…and he brought him back to the garda car where he asked him to provide a sample of his breath. Mr Hegarty blew into the breathalyser and failed, leading him to arrest Mr Hegarty…
What happened next?
He got off on appeal.
Yay.
Previously: Councillor fails to annul drink-driving case after arrest on ‘non-existent street’ (Cork Examiner)
(Independent.ie)
Wonderful twist in Shattergate – Mattie McGrath claims Shatter refused a breath-test at Garda Checkpoint…
— rabble(@wearerabble) May 23, 2013
Independent TD Mattie McGrath this morning asked Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore if he knew if Alan Shatter [before he became Justice Minister] had been stopped at a garda checkpoint, asked to produce a specimen of breath and if his subsequent behaviour and reaction to this request was “appropriate and indeed cordial?”.
Mr McMcGrath also asked if Mr Gilmore knew if Mr Shatter had attempted to use the TDs’ privilege of immunity from traffic charges while travelling to and from the Dail “as a means of avoiding the breath test”.
Gasp.
(Photocall Ireland)
Anything gut on German telly?
German TV station Spiegel is spending four days with Danny Healy-Rae to document his “passion” and support for rural dwellers.
A three-man Hamburg-based TV crew also captured Mr Healy-Rae’s contributions at yesterday’s monthly meeting of the county council. Mr Lehberger said he was impressed by Mr Healy-Rae and, particularly, his passion about representing rural people.
German TV to film Healy-Rae’s rural ‘passion’ (Anne Lucey, Irish Examiner)
Previously: To The Pitchforks
(Irish Examiner)
