Judge described defence as ‘very significant development’ in a drink-driving case
Jack Sheehan was tested and was found to be over the limit at 68 grams per 100 ml of alcohol.An expert medical witness has told a court that a 27-year-old west Clare man was undergoing a sleep disorder episode when he was drink-driving and his car veered off the road into a ditch last year.
Insp Ronan McMahon told the court that Mr Sheehan was twice over the legal alcohol limit for driving when he crashed his car near the west Clare village of Doonbeg at around 2.30am on December 3rd last. Dr Garvey said that Garda Morgan’s description of Jack’s eyes as glassy and his speech slurred as well as being unsteady on his feet could fit with someone in the midst of NREM parasomnia and half asleep as well as alcoholic intoxication.
In evidence, Garda Gearoid Morgan told the court that he saw Mr Sheehan’s white Skoda Rapid car veer off the road into a ditch outside Doonbeg at around 2.30am Mr Sheehan was subsequently tested and was found to be over the limit at 68 grams per 100 ml of alcohol.
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