Remember those lads racing the sulkys on the N20 last year?

Rovi

Five of them got the jail:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0208/breaking45.html

Five jailed over Cork sulky race

Five men have been sentenced to five months in jail each for dangerous driving during a sulky race on the main Cork-Limerick road last year which subsequently became a YouTube sensation with close to 400,000 hits.

At Cork District Court today, Judge Olan Kelleher said he was imposing the five month sentence on each of the five to indicate the gravity of the matter and the lack of respect they had shown for other road users when racing two horse drawn sulkies on the main N20 near Blarney at about 8am on May 5th, 2012.

Full article at the above link

They were also banned for six years, and most of them were also fined €300.

Wexfordian

Oh good. Maybe they'll do something about that daft Kerry trucking company as well.

Sofiztikated

Rovi wrote: »

Five of them got the jail:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2013/0208/breaking45.html


They were also banned for six years, and most of them were also fined €300.

Banned from what, though? Driving?

Oh hai

Good! Idiots could have killed someone! :mad:

miller50841

These guys get the dole, free housing and god knows what other benefits and have a lot of money and also from what I remember from the video they all had very good cars.

As Ive said elsewhere this country and its legal system is a joke.

€300 fine that wouldn't even cover the costs and I'm sure they were granted free legal aid.

They don't care if they are banned it won't stop them driving.

Sometimes I think what is the point of working and paying taxes when you could have more by doing nothing like those.

mickdw

For a change I think its a reasonable outcome. 5 got jail. True, they could ramp up the fine levels to let them feel the pinch a bit.

renofan

While I'm glad to hear they got a jail sentence will they actually serve the 5 months? Also the fine is a joke. To me it makes a mockery of the system but then again how many people do you hear of 60 or 70 convictions? €3,000 fine would have been better but then again these people would find that peanuts. I work as an Accountant and EVERY other Accountant I speak to has never heard of any of these doing tax returns. Bloody joke and shout discrimination if you say anything negative about them.

Supergurrier

Discimination Boss

hare

will the td stopped for drink driving if found guilty be going to jail for 5 months.will she fxxk.

hare

renofan wrote: »

While I'm glad to hear they got a jail sentence will they actually serve the 5 months? Also the fine is a joke. To me it makes a mockery of the system but then again how many people do you hear of 60 or 70 convictions? €3,000 fine would have been better but then again these people would find that peanuts. I work as an Accountant and EVERY other Accountant I speak to has never heard of any of these doing tax returns. Bloody joke and shout discrimination if you say anything negative about them.

if your a horse dealer you dont pay tax.:cool:

Extinction

hare wrote: »

will the td stopped for drink driving if found guilty be going to jail for 5 months.will she fxxk.

This one? http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/clare-daly-lashes-out-at-gardai-as-shes-cleared-of-drinkdriving-29056888.html

the culture of deference

Why does it take 9 months to come to court. They will do fcukall jail time and they will be driving again asap. Courts are a joke. If you are caught drink or dangerous driving you should be banned immediately.

OldmanMondeo

hare wrote: »

will the td stopped for drink driving if found guilty be going to jail for 5 months.will she fxxk.

The one who wasn't over the limit?

ManMade

So in 6 years time they'll be legally allowed on the roads again? Why? Why not ban them outright. How many penalty points would have been racked up for each individual offence and the fines for each one? €300 that's just over one week of the dole!! But then if add the child benefits!!

dr.fuzzenstein

They're disqualified from driving? Now they'll have to take the horse and cart!:eek:
Anyways, this is Ireland, if you are a big enough scumbag and have sufficient backup, you can do what you want because the state is too weak and afraid to take you on. It's pathetic really. In any other country there is special forces police, all minimun 6ft3, build like a brick outhouse, dressed in riot gear, and armed to the teeth. In these countries you don't have illegal horse racing on the open road in the middle of the day for some strange reason.
As much as I decry a totalitarian state, sometimes, just sometimes, a good old-fashioned fascist police force is a good thing.
The Irish state really is a lamb to the slaughter to some of the more dangerous and heavily armed gangs operating here, one day they'll have critical mass and could overthrow the state if they wanted. Bit sad really, and Garda O'Reilly in his 00 diesel Mondeo will be completely powerless to stop it, because his most formidable weapon is a notebook and a pencil. Yeah, that'll scare the criminals rigid...
'Tis a quant and romantic notion, an unarmed police force, but it really belongs in the 1950's, where coppers wore tweed and had Ford Populars and all they needed was a truncheon and a whistle.
The police force in Ireland is about 30 years behind.

OldmanMondeo

ManMade wrote: »

So in 6 years time they'll be legally allowed on the roads again? Why? Why not ban them outright. How many penalty points would have been racked up for each individual offence and the fines for each one? €300 that's just over one week of the dole!! But then if add the child benefits!!

In fairness, they will be driving in no time...

dr.fuzzenstein

OldmanMondeo wrote: »

In fairness, they will be driving in no time...

Yep, the law is nothing but a mild inconvenience to these guys anyways. They truly don't give a sh*t.

the culture of deference

OldmanMondeo wrote: »

In fairness, they will be driving in no time...

Driving home from court after been banned. Very Irish

ThreeLineWhip

the culture of deference wrote: »

Driving home from court after been banned. Very Irish

Driving bans take 14 days to have effect in law.

So driving home from court is completely legal.

Its a fair penalty if they were actually to serve the five months. I bet they won't even serve five weeks. It would be interesting to find out afterwards how much time they actually do serve. We could do a sweep on it. lol

ThreeLineWhip

Stick me down for 5 hours.

dr.fuzzenstein

ThreeLineWhip wrote: »

Stick me down for 5 hours.

Just enough to take them in, process them, give them a complete medical, full dinner and a bit of sports and games, followed by desert, pat on the head and off you go, you be a good boy now.
Yep, if I was a criminal, I'd definitely kack myself at the thought of that.

renofan

renofan wrote: »

............ I work as an Accountant and EVERY other Accountant I speak to has never heard of any of these doing tax returns............

They might use ROS themselves and have no need to use an accountant :pac:

renofan

RoverJames wrote: »

They might use ROS themselves and have no need to use an accountant :pac:

Lol :pac:

miller50841

RoverJames wrote: »

They might use ROS themselves and have no need to use an accountant :pac:

Can be difficult cause any I come across say whats that say Boss