CCA rules wholly suspended sentence for dangerous driving causing death was unduly lenient

The Court of Criminal Appeal ruled on Tuesday that a five-year wholly suspended sentence imposed for dangerous driving causing death was unduly lenient. Ronan Cunningham, aged 31, of Enniskeen, Kingscourt, had pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court in December 2011 to causing the death of Emmanuel Mendes, aged 24, on the N7 Naas dual carriageway on 10 October 2010. Cunningham also pleaded guilty to driving…