{"id":320094,"date":"2026-02-27T13:03:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/320094\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T13:03:08","slug":"limerick-man-gets-ten-year-driving-ban-for-driving-without-licence-or-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/320094\/","title":{"rendered":"Limerick man gets ten year driving ban for driving without licence or insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A MAN has received a 10 year driving ban at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Limerick<\/a> District Court for driving without insurance and a licence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Shane Kelly, 37, with a home address at Distillery View, Quarry Road, Thomondgate, drove a BMW X3 at various locations in Limerick city on April 18, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecuting Sergeant Denis Waters told the city court that garda\u00ed were alerted to Mr Kelly\u2019s driving and later interviewed him.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kelly has 79 previous convictions, including five counts of driving without insurance and a further five convictions for driving without a licence.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.limerickleader.ie\/news\/home\/2023555\/government-confirm-engagement-with-jp-mcmanus-and-family-to-open-new-museum-in-limerick.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Government confirm engagement with JP McManus and family to open new museum in Limerick<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In December 2025 the man received a five years sentence for burglary and unauthorised taking in the circuit court &#8211; which he is currently in custody for.<\/p>\n<p>Solicitor Darach McCarthy said that his client was honest and forthright when interviewed by garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n<p>The solicitor said that Mr Kelly is \u201ca heavy addict\u201d and that his last conviction for driving without insurance occurred \u201cquite some time ago\u201d &#8211; in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Patricia Harney banned the man from driving for 10 years, and convicted and fined the man \u20ac1,200 for driving without insurance and a licence.<\/p>\n<p>-Funded by the Court Reporting Scheme<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n<p>ADVERTISEMENT &#8211; CONTINUE READING BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A MAN has received a 10 year driving ban at Limerick District Court for driving without insurance and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320095,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[45,93,61,60,1396,44,7250,47264],"class_list":["post-320094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-an-garda-siochana","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-limerick","tag-limerick-city","tag-limerick-district-court","tag-thomondgate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320094","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=320094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320094\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}