Thomas Dennis fined €1,500 for failing to report hit-and-run

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Thomas Dennis was fined €1,500 at Swords District Court for failing to report a hit-and-run, reported on 15 January 2014. The incident happened on Quay Street in Balbriggan on 16 December 2012, when a woman’s fingertip was severed by a car door.

Dennis pleaded guilty after reporting the incident to gardaí the following afternoon, after finding the fingertip in his car and consulting his father. Judge Dermot Dempsey gave him four months to pay and fixed recognisance in the event of an appeal.

This case may have concluded differently. The outcome has not yet been confirmed by a public source we could find.