{"id":673624,"date":"2026-11-03T11:14:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673624\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T11:14:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T11:14:12","slug":"three-year-driving-ban-for-cork-plasterer-whose-car-was-found-overturned-in-middle-of-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/673624\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-year driving ban for Cork plasterer whose car was found overturned in middle of road\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">A Macroom plasterer, whose car was found overturned in the middle of the road, has been banned from driving for three years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Jamie McCarthy, aged 29, of Knockane, Terelton, Macroom, pleaded guilty to drink driving, at Macroom District Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Garda\u00ed responded to a report of a single-vehicle road traffic collision at Carrigadrohid on October 6, 2024, at 5.24pm.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The court heard McCarthy\u2019s car was on its roof in the middle of the road when garda\u00ed arrived.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">He was receiving treatment for facial injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">He provided a breath specimen at the scene and was taken to Macroom Garda Station, where a blood sample returned a reading of 184mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood. The legal limit is 50mg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">The court heard he had four previous convictions, two for drug possession and two for public order offences.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Defence solicitor, Jack Purcell, said McCarthy, who was on a 12-month probation bond, had made \u201ca stupid mistake.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">He said his client worked full-time as a self-employed plasterer and did not have addiction issues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Mr Purcell said McCarthy had been fully co-operative, had not left the scene and no one else was involved in the collision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Judge Joanne Carroll noted McCarthy\u2019s co-operation, convicted him of drink driving and disqualified him from driving for three years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Macroom plasterer, whose car was found overturned in the middle of the road, has been banned from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[54,61,60,43],"class_list":["post-673624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-courts","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673624","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=673624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}