TUAM REPEAT OFFENDER GETS YEAR IN PRISON FOR DRINK DRIVING

Date Published: 12-Aug-2009

A Tuam man with 58 previous convictions who's already been disqualified from driving for forty years, has been sentenced to twelve months in prison and put off the road for a further eight years for continuing to drive while drunk.Imposing the penalties at the holiday sittings of Galway District Court yesterday Judge Conal Gibbons told 29 year-old Patrick Ward of Abbey, Abbeyknockmoy, Tuam, that he had "literally run out of road" following his fifth drink driving conviction.