{"id":421409,"date":"2026-04-28T09:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421409\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T09:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T09:32:11","slug":"judge-tells-motorist-thats-too-fast-to-be-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/421409\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge tells motorist “That’s too fast to be driving”"},"content":{"rendered":"

A motorist clocked at 119 kilometres per hour in an 80kph zone last summer has been fined \u20ac320 for speeding.<\/p>\n

Tomash Kondyk, of Cashel, Carndonagh, appeared before Carndonagh District Court, where he admitted a charge of exceeding the speed limit, contrary to Section 47 of the Road Traffic Act. <\/p>\n

The court heard that the offence occurred on the outskirts of the town during the early hours of August 1, 2025.<\/p>\n

At 12.45am on that date, Garda Tully was operating a speed check on the R244 road at Glasalt, Carndonagh, when he detected a vehicle, a 2006 UK-registered BMW, travelling at 119 kilometres per hour in an 80kph zone.<\/p>\n

The driver was Mr Kondyk, who has no previous convictions.<\/p>\n

Mr Kondyk represented himself during the brief hearing in court and told Judge Emile Daly that he accepted he had been speeding.<\/p>\n

He also said he had attempted to pay the fixed charge penalty notice but was unable to complete the payment.<\/p>\n

Judge Daly noted the circumstances and said she would leave the fine at the same level as would have applied had the fixed penalty notice been paid in the post, which was \u20ac320.<\/p>\n

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She allowed Mr Kondyk two months to pay the outstanding amount.<\/p>\n

Addressing the defendant, Judge Daly warned against the level of speed involved. \u201cThat\u2019s too fast to be driving in that zone,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s important that you take account of that.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A motorist clocked at 119 kilometres per hour in an 80kph zone last summer has been fined \u20ac320…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-421409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421409","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=421409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}