Banned from driving for 5 years

darrenobrien85

hi can anyone help me
just over two years ago i was banned from driving for 5 years
and want to try and get back on as early as i can
does anyone know anything about it

Seth Brundle

Thankfully (given your other post), you have improved your method of posting so that foul language isn't required!

Contact a solicitor and discuss any reasons for having the ban removed and see if they are mitigating circumstances but don't hold your breath.
However, 5 years? Sounds like it was something bad and for this expect zero sympathy from myself or most folk on here.

pcardin

I know. A bit less than 3y and you'll be back on the road. Time flies fast...


Just out off curiosity how did you get your 5y ban?

kildare.17hmr

kbannon wrote: »

Thankfully (given your other post), you have improved your method of posting so that foul language isn't required!

Contact a solicitor and discuss any reasons for having the ban removed and see if they are mitigating circumstances but don't hold your breath.
However, 5 years? Sounds like it was something bad and for this expect zero sympathy from myself or most folk on here.

bit harsh? the op hasnt even said why he was banned, hopefully he has learned his lesson and is here lookin for some advice hope pepople give you a 2nd chance if you ever make a mistake

Seth Brundle

kildare.17hmr wrote: »

bit harsh? the op hasnt even said why he was banned, hopefully he has learned his lesson and is here lookin for some advice hope pepople give you a 2nd chance if you ever make a mistake

Years of experience on here have demonstrated this lack of sympathy towards people who get banned!

You don't get 5 years for nothing! If you do then take the hit and don't come on an internet forum after two years looking for the punishment to be revoked.

However, I did give him advice.
I too have made mistakes. I didn't try to get out of the punishment.

JerCotter7

kbannon wrote: »

Years of experience on here have demonstrated this lack of sympathy towards people who get banned!

You don't get 5 years for nothing! If you do then take the hit and don't come on an internet forum after two years looking for the punishment to be revoked.

However, I did give him advice.
I too have made mistakes. I didn't try to get out of the punishment.

Just because he got banned for 5 years doesn't mean it was his fault. I know someone involved in a crash that got a driving ban. Lately he got a letter saying the rear axle of the vehicle he was driving was at faulty. So you really should think before making statements like that.

GTDolanator

id imagine its a ban for drink or drugs???my mate got a six year ban for being caught smoking pot(got caught twice) but if he didnt get into any trouble in 4 years it would be up for rethink

corktina

JerCotter7 wrote: »

Just because he got banned for 5 years doesn't mean it was his fault. I know someone involved in a crash that got a driving ban. Lately he got a letter saying the rear axle of the vehicle he was driving was at faulty. So you really should think before making statements like that.

driving a faulty vehicle might warrant a ban though Id say. Depends on the circumstances.

JerCotter7

corktina wrote: »

driving a faulty vehicle might warrant a ban though Id say. Depends on the circumstances.

That's like saying that everyone that bought a new Toyota last year should get banned. How was he supposed to know if it was a fault from factory?

Henry Ford III

GTDolanator wrote: »

id imagine its a ban for drink or drugs???

Could be a ban for a range of things.

ligertigon

I wonder what the 25 year olds name is..........

If I'm right, you've lots of time left. So a few more years wont hurt.


Get a solicitor

GTDolanator

Henry Ford III wrote: »

Could be a ban for a range of things.

id could be i wont argue that bit,but 5 years is at the higher end of the scale in terms of seriousness

mark renton

kbannon wrote: »

However, 5 years? Sounds like it was something bad and for this expect zero sympathy from myself or most folk on here.

do you mind not deciding on whether to apply my sympathy or not?

corktina

JerCotter7 wrote: »

That's like saying that everyone that bought a new Toyota last year should get banned. How was he supposed to know if it was a fault from factory?

"Depends on the circumstances". :rolleyes:

leeroybrown

Get a solicitor who has experience in the area. It's not as if you're going to divulge all the relevant details here and we're not in a position to give what would be legal advice based on them anyway.

jimmycrackcorm

john47832 wrote: »

do you mind not deciding on whether to apply my sympathy or not?

kbannon is right though - there's no point in the op posting about his ban as it'll just lead to a flood of moral outrage postings.

Delta Kilo

Have to love google, that is all im saying.

Your insurance will be massive once your ban is lifted too. Expect quotes in excess of €3000 and most companies will refuse to insure you.

Owen

Must be the name. There's someone with the same name as the OP with a 10 year ban following two previous bans, and fleeing the scene of a hit and run.

tfitzgerald

Delta Kilo wrote: »

Have to love google, that is all im saying.

Your insurance will be massive once your ban is lifted too. Expect quotes in excess of €3000 and most companies will refuse to insure you.

Ya google is good delta kilo I owe you a drink or 20

run_Forrest_run

darrenobrien85 wrote: »

hi can anyone help me
just over two years ago i was banned from driving for 5 years
and want to try and get back on as early as i can
does anyone know anything about it

it's the way you phrased it: "get back on as early as i can.." - you make it sound like a race, like a Le Mans or sorts. Take your punishment and learn the lesson is my advice.

GTE

I would much prefer the OP to serve the whole ban then try and get him/her back on the road before their punishment is up.

Though, advice here is valid. Getting a solicitor to work out the finer points of it all would be needed.

With any luck, and I am being petty here, the financial cost of that will only result in being told that the full 5 years have to be done.

I cant imagine anything that isn't that bad which would result in a 5 year ban.

Eric Cartman

OP - If you are the same person that an irish modified car enthusiast website have a thread about then I have no sympathy for you and feel your ban is 100% justified , If however it is not I would still say you had to do something to get a 10 5 year ban :rolleyes: go talk to a solicitor , not keyboard warriors, you will receive very little help though , Id say your insurance is already mental, your pockets will need to get deeper


IBTL on this one , May go down as an epic thread..

pajo1981

If you are the dude involved in the hit and run then 10 years is good enough for you.

maidhc

You are entitled to apply to get your licence back if you have served 1/2. It can be reduced by 1/3 at the discretion of the court.

Hunter Mahan

5 years sounds like the ban one would get for driving a stolen car or driving without insurance......... or drifting

You picked the wrong Judge to annoy, and I'd bet money he won't change his mind...

Dave147

john47832 wrote: »

do you mind not deciding on whether to apply my sympathy or not?

Is your name "Most folk"?

vectra

@ OP,
Did you own a Dark Blue Civic one time??

managerman

no sympathy if it was a hit and run... friend of mine was in a hit and run couple of years back... destroyed peoples lives

Seth Brundle

john47832 wrote: »

do you mind not deciding on whether to apply my sympathy or not?

Where did I suggest that I was offering your sympathy?
if you could re-read my post you will see that I referred to "most folk" which coincidentally given the way this thread has gone, appears to have been the case.

mark renton

jimmycrackcorm wrote: »

kbannon is right though - there's no point in the op posting about his ban as it'll just lead to a flood of moral outrage postings.

kbannon is not right - he just seen an opportunity to jump on moral high ground and up he went - along with "most people"

op was asking for advice on how to go about a legal procedure to which he is entitled

Eric Cartman

john47832 wrote: »

kbannon is not right - he just seen an opportunity to jump on moral high ground and up he went - along with "most people"

op was asking for advice on how to go about a legal procedure to which he is entitled

boards is not a legal advice forum, its a huge opinions and 'down the pub style information' section , everyone in here is giving their opinion and as kbannon gave his / predicted , most of us have a fairly low opinion of what the OP did and want to see his ban enforced in full

GTE

john47832 wrote: »

kbannon is not right - he just seen an opportunity to jump on moral high ground and up he went - along with "most people"

op was asking for advice on how to go about a legal procedure to which he is entitled

It is not a moral high ground issue when the OP is looking to get out of a 5 year ban in the way he has.
He is entitled to the legal proceedings I assume but he does not deserve it given his introduction of the topic.

Seth Brundle

john47832 wrote: »

kbannon is not right - he just seen an opportunity to jump on moral high ground and up he went - along with "most people"

op was asking for advice on how to go about a legal procedure to which he is entitled

I'm too old and too long here to care about gaining the moral high ground. However, if I wanted to ride in on a high horse, would I have given the advice? Furthermore, the fact that similar advice wasn't offered until post #11 potentially reinforces my view.

Secondly, IMO you are the one actually trying to claim the moral high ground here. Still, though I don't care.

However, find me a thread here where someone came on looking to "get back on as early as they can" where they received a majority or responses that were sympathetic and I will accept your view.

Satanta

You can make an application to get your licence restored early. However, you must serve 1/2 your ban before you can make this application. And you must also serve 2/3 of your ban, as you can only get up to 1/3 off the term. Therefore you will still need to serve 40 months (assuming it is a 5 year ban).

Scotty #

Hit & run? Should be 10 years in prison and never allowed behind the wheel again.

vectra

Satanta wrote: »

You can make an application to get your licence restored early. However, you must serve 1/2 your ban before you can make this application. And you must also serve 2/3 of your ban, as you can only get up to 1/3 off the term. Therefore you will still need to serve 40 months (assuming it is a 5 year ban).

If the OP is who I think it is then I would say it would be a total waste of time as I witnessed his Driving on more than one occasion and to say he was wild would be putting it mildly

stoneill

Luckily for you OP that you weren't like that big feckin eegit from Cork who had 5 previous convictions including leaving the scene of a hit and run and had been previously been banned twice already. (Bans were then lifted)

Just be grateful that you are not that sort of gobsh1te.

Man - you would want to be a complete arsehole to have that sort of driving record.

congo_90

Im all for slating drivers but IF this is the same case as below then about time. Gives (relatively) sensible males a bad name

JUDGE GETS TOUGH ON BAD DRIVING

North Cork is overrun with skid marks, circles and burned up tyres because of boyracers and it is scandalous, a judge said.

Judge Michael Patwell was speaking yesterday in Fermoy District Court after jailing Darren O'Brien, of 64, Beechfield, Fermoy for two months and disqualifying him from driving for 10 years.
O´Brien was convicted of dangerous driving at Carrignagreoghera, Fermoy, on January 13 this year.

Inspector Senan Ryan told the court that O'Brien was driving a Honda Civic and being watched by a number of people as he performed a move known as "drifting"

Drifting is sliding a car sideways and it involves using the brakes to get effect.

The court heard that O'Brien had five previous convictions, including for dangerous driving and failing to remain at the scenme of a hit and run.
He had already been banned from driving on two previous occusions but had the banns lifted in the Circuit Court of Appeals.

Judge Michael Patwell said the judges in the appeals court should not have lifted the driving bans.
The judges were very mercifull he added.

O'Briens solicitor Matt Bermingham, said O'Brien did not appreciate the seriousness of the matter then but did now

linky

Cabaal

JerCotter7 wrote: »

Just because he got banned for 5 years doesn't mean it was his fault. I know someone involved in a crash that got a driving ban. Lately he got a letter saying the rear axle of the vehicle he was driving was at faulty. So you really should think before making statements like that.

The court backs up kbannon's statement, until there's any evidence to suggest the court is wrong what your saying is meaningless to be honest.

The OP receievd a ban, his options are wait or seek legal advice, until then his guilty unless proven otherwise by the courts.

Seth Brundle

JerCotter7 wrote: »

Just because he got banned for 5 years doesn't mean it was his fault. I know someone involved in a crash that got a driving ban. Lately he got a letter saying the rear axle of the vehicle he was driving was at faulty. So you really should think before making statements like that.

Actually, could you please post a link to this article? I'm curious to read about someone getting a lengthy ban for a worn axle and what their brief said, etc.

ShadowHearth

Lol performing drifting with honda civic... That just sounds nice, but i love when media just sums all the tyre marks here... That fecker must be really bastord, but they will give all donut glory too.

Interesting, how many people died from donuts... I bet waaay more people died from sugar donuts thought...

As for op... Oh well, dont look for legal advoce here as all you will get here as an opportunity to keyboards warriors to show theyr skills. This forum needs less drama and more auto discutions...

Iny opinion you should do all 5 years... On the ather hand i cant judge you for what you did, specially when i dont even have a clue how did you got your ban

Elite_Etnisa

the only way around is to go to a different country make a driving licence there ... Country such as im not sure , latvia , poland , scotland , holland somewhere that ireland wouldnt be as close to as england . When you get your licence there you can easily swap it for the eu one and drive away in ireland . I wouldnt advise it but i know that making a driving licence in other countries is very simple and short.

vectra

Elite_Etnisa wrote: »

the only way around is to go to a different country make a driving licence there ... Country such as im not sure , latvia , poland , scotland , holland somewhere that ireland wouldnt be as close to as england . When you get your licence there you can easily swap it for eu one and drive away in ireland . I wouldnt advise it but i know that making a driving licence in other countries is very simple and short.

Thats all very fine. But what about when he drives around in the locallity and every member of the Gardai knows him and that he is off the road for a long long time.. (10 years if I am correct)

What about the person he hit and run..How would he/she react seeing him flying around again so soon??
OP would get Another jail sentence only longer this time Iwould assume

Sunnyisland

Elite_Etnisa wrote: »

the only way around is to go to a different country make a driving licence there ... Country such as im not sure , latvia , poland , scotland , holland somewhere that ireland would be as close to as england . When you get your licence there you can easily swap it for the eu one and drive away in ireland . I wouldn't advise it but i know that making a driving licence in other countries is very simple and short.

He would still be lying on his application forms for insurance & driving licence,which would then make his licence invalid,as i am sure you are asked have you any previous bans etc etc,I think scotland's driving licences are the same as england's as that is all uk,

Why cant op just do his time or punishment,if he was man enough to commit them he should be man enough to do his punishment.

TheBazman

Isn't the Op just trolling..... He/she opens the thread to provoke a reaction, doesn't post again, and uses a "real" name that would obviously lead back to the linked story.

Marcusm

realies wrote: »

He would still be lying on his application forms for insurance & driving licence,which would then make his licence invalid,as i am sure you are asked have you any previous bans etc etc,I think scotland's driving licences are the same as england's as that is all uk,

Why cant op just do his time or punishment,if he was man enough to commit them he should be man enough to do his punishment.

He should scratch the relevant UK "countries" off this list unless he wants to be done for making a false declaration - it's not possible to sit a driving test unless you have been resident in the country for the previous 6 months. I believe the penalties are related to those for perjury. A similar rule applies in Ireland I believe.