Drunk Man Crashed Driving Home From Fermanagh To Leitrim

A bricklayer crashed while driving home across the border after being thrown out of an Enniskillen guest-house for causing a disturbance.

He has been fined £1,200 and banned from driving for two years.

According to the Impartial Reporter newspaper, 22-year-old Gary McGovern of Breffni Crescent in Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim admitted driving while unfit, without insurance, failing to remain at the scene of a crash and provide a specimen of his breath, resisting a police constable and a civilian custody officer.

A prosecutor told Fermanagh Court that on Sunday, April 8, police were called to the Marble Arch road in Florencecourt, where they found an Audi A4 with substantial damage to the front.

A second police patrol found McGovern, who had cuts to his face, walking towards Enniskillen with another man.

Both denied involvement in the crash.

McGovern failed a breath test and was taken to Enniskillen police station, where he struggled with officers and refused to provide a sample.

Defence solicitor Grainne Mulligan said McGovern and his friend had been in Enniskillen for a night out and had got a taxi from their bed and breakfast on the Sligo Road into town and back out.

When they were asked to leave their guest house for causing a disturbance McGovern tried to drive home in his friend's car - it would have been a journey of more than 40 miles.

He was sorry for what he accepted was disgraceful behaviour, Mrs Mulligan said, and he had not driven since the crash.

(NE)