{"id":445258,"date":"2026-05-12T16:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445258\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T16:54:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T16:54:11","slug":"drunk-mother-with-children-in-car-was-high-on-cocktail-of-drugs-when-she-killed-cyclist-court-told","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/445258\/","title":{"rendered":"Drunk mother with children in car was high on \u2018cocktail\u2019 of drugs when she killed cyclist, court told"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Saoirse Lillis McMahon (33) had her two young sons in the car and an open wine bottle on the passenger seat when she crashed into and killed Michael LoriganLorigan\u2019s widow told the court that she and Michael were celebrating their 39th wedding anniversary that day and he had been cycling to meet her\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Saoirse Lillis McMahon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1e7582d2-faf7-40f3-9034-f34827dc4b02.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Saoirse Lillis McMahon<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A drunk driver had her two young children with her and an open bottle of wine on the passenger seat when she crashed into and killed \u201cgifted\u201d teacher Michael Lorigan, a court has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Francis Comerford imposed a five-year prison term, suspending the final six months, on Saoirse Lillis McMahon (33) for dangerous driving causing death of cyclist Michael Lorigan (70) on August 16, 2023, on the N67 at Baunmore, Kilkee in west Clare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saoirse Lillis McMahon (33) had her two young sons in the car and an open wine bottle on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,898,43],"class_list":["post-445258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445258","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=445258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}