2025-12-15
'A mockery of the system': driver caught by gardai while under seven active bans gets six-month jail term
Stage: Sentence
Plea: Guilty
Outcome: Judge Fottrell said he had no alternative but to impose a custodial sentence and sentenced O'Brien to six months' imprisonment for the no-insurance offence, with the no-licence offence taken into consideration. A further four-year driving disqualification was imposed, to run back-to-back with existing orders, meaning O'Brien will be disqualified from driving until January 2030.