Appeal court cuts Tanya Kirwan’s driving disqualification to two years and four months

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The Court of Appeal quashed Tanya Kirwan’s original four-year driving disqualification and replaced it with a two-year-and-four-month ban, backdated to July 7, 2022. The court said the disqualification would be completed by the end of November 11, 2024.

The three-judge court found the original order had been treated as mandatory when it was discretionary, an error in principle. It reimposed Kirwan’s one-year prison sentence, suspended unconditionally, as the appropriate sentence.