{"id":131873,"date":"2025-11-10T09:05:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131873\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T09:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T09:05:08","slug":"cork-woman-caught-driving-while-disqualified-in-most-unfortunate-situation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/131873\/","title":{"rendered":"Cork woman caught driving while disqualified in \u201cmost unfortunate situation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">A woman who was caught driving while disqualified found herself in \u201ca most unfortunate situation\u201d, according to the presiding judge at a recent sitting of Clonakilty District Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Court presenter Sergeant Tom Mulcahy told the court that Pascalene Daly, 52, of The Bungalow, Deelish, Drimoleague, Co Cork, was observed by a local garda driving at Shanacrane East, Dunmanway, on August 13, 2025, at 1.35pm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The garda suspected that Daly was disqualified from driving and stopped the car. It was confirmed that Daly was disqualified and had no licence or valid insurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The court was told that Daly had been disqualified from driving for four years on June 4, 2025, and that Daly had three previous convictions, two for driving without insurance and one for failing to produce valid insurance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Defence solicitor Conrad Murphy said that Daly lived in a remote, rural location and was the sole carer for her older sister, who has Down syndrome.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">He said that Daly\u2019s first no-insurance conviction resulted in a two-year disqualification, because she did not appear in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu caption\">Convicted<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The court heard that Daly was then convicted a second time within a three-year period, which incurred a mandatory four-year disqualification.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Mr Murphy said his client had been driving since she was 18 and had a long history of working in bakeries and then as a home help. He said that she was the sole carer for her older sister and this had limited her ability to work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Mr Murphy said that Daly could not afford to pay increasing insurance premiums and should have dealt with her initial conviction differently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">He asked judge Joanne Carroll not to impose a custodial sentence, given Daly\u2019s difficult home circumstances.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Judge Carroll said it was \u201ca most unfortunate situation\u201d that had arisen, because Daly had \u201cnot dealt with her affairs properly\u201d. The judge said it was \u201cregrettable in the extreme\u201d, but she had to convict Daly for driving while disqualified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The judge said that Daly had driven on two occasions with no insurance and \u201cthat\u2019s the bottom line\u201d and the penalty was out of her hands.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Daly was convicted of driving while disqualified and was given a three-month prison sentence, suspended for 12 months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The no-insurance charge was struck out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This article is funded by the Courts Reporting Scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman who was caught driving while disqualified found herself in \u201ca most unfortunate situation\u201d, according to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2246,79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-131873","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-court","9":"tag-cork-news","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}