{"id":666509,"date":"2026-10-27T05:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666509\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T05:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T05:00:10","slug":"west-cork-carpenter-given-year-long-driving-ban-after-failing-roadside-drug-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666509\/","title":{"rendered":"West Cork carpenter given year-long driving ban after failing roadside drug test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\"> A Ballingeary carpenter who tested positive for cannabis after garda\u00ed stopped his Audi while it was travelling at up to 110km\/h has been banned from driving for a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mark Cronin, 44, of Carrignadoura, Ballingeary, accepted the facts at Macroom District Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The court heard an automatic number plate recognition (ANPR) scan identified an untaxed Audi A6 travelling at about 100km\/h to 110km\/h on an 80km\/h stretch of road at Lissacresig, Macroom, on May 28, 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A Garda patrol followed the car, activated its blue lights and stopped Cronin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">He failed a roadside drug test for cannabis and was taken to Macroom Garda Station, where a blood sample returned a reading of 16.8ng.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The court heard Cronin had five previous convictions, including driving without insurance, theft and drink-driving.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Defence solicitor Jack Purcell said an error had been made in his client\u2019s address on the certificate.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Joanne Carroll said it was clearly a spelling mistake and the sample plainly related to Cronin.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Mr Purcell said Cronin worked as a carpenter and was now caring for his two elderly parents and looking after the family farm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Judge Carroll disqualified Cronin from driving for 12 months. In light of his circumstances, she imposed no further penalty.<\/p>\n<p>                This article is funded by the Courts Reporting Scheme<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Ballingeary carpenter who tested positive for cannabis after garda\u00ed stopped his Audi while it was travelling at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666510,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[79,54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-666509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-cork-news","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666509","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=666509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666509\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}