Dreadful..

She wasn't worrying about the kids when driving under the influence, and leaving an injured man on the road to die..

Same, feck other circumstances, every action should be punished for what it was. Kids and their family life should have nothing to do with it! She severely injured someone and should be punished accordingly. Driving off, and if reports are correct, under the influence exacerbates it for me and judges really need to start doing their job! She'll get feck all for this, she shouldnt be allowed drive again and should see a cell. That poor guy has to live with that for the rest of his life, she should feel some tiny piece of his pain!

Please God let it not be Judge Nolan.

Do we let all mothers of young children away with committing any crime? Murder someone, ah she has kids so forget about it.

Horrific stuff, thankfully someone managed to tourniquet the leg before he died. But his life has changed forever.

I have to wonder about all these close passes, intimidation & punishment buzzes and general state these people are in when they decide to get behind the wheel.

I'd given up cycling to school with the kids a year ago. To many chunts making it uncomfortable, blaring their horns when I'm overlapping the back wheel of my 12 year old girls bike, close passing, overtaking and turning left 2 metres away, pulling in on top of us, overtaking with oncoming traffic, ignoring my very obvious hand signals and blocking us, revving behind us to move us along...

I'd love to be cycling, the kids are excellent cyclists, the went from balance bikes to proper bikes, they know the rules of the road, I was a cycle courier, I lived in Dublin City for 12 years without a car fully reliant on bikes...

But they're on the scooters and skateboards until things improve.

The chunts won.

It is terrible to read this. I thought it was reported the driver was under the influence of alcohol. Not sure the accuracy of that information.

Custodial should be mandatory if a driver leaves the scene but in Ireland who knows what the judiciary will sentence on any given day. A mother is unlikely to be given custodial sentence in Ireland for something like this due to a lack of female prison accommodation.

That's awful. I didnt know that. The poor man. Goes for a short cycle and will never return to the life he had/knew before that.

As someone said, she is a mother of young children and it would therefore be not appropriate to give her a custodial sentence as it would, in effect, be a punishment on the children for the misdeeds of the mother. That would not be right.

The only circumstance where a mother of young children really ought to be imprisoned is where she is a very high risk of reoffending voilently, or is a danger to the childern.

Community service of some form that is not going to have a negative effect on the children is what is most apprpriate here.

At the end of the day she is a young woman in her 20s too. She had an accident and then made a mistake and just panicked and left.

She isn't really a danger of reoffending like this.

Yes, she should face some consequences for her actions, I fully agree. But her totally innocent children should not be punished indirectly for it.

Driving ban for life and a long custodial sentence are the least she should face. I'd go further and say she is not fit to be a mother to her children and remove them from her care, if this is the example she will set for them.

Anyone saying that she shouldn't face appropriate punishment by virtue of having kids needs to take a long look at themselves. Would you say that if she gets back behind the wheel of her car after a few drinks and knocks your child off their bike, dismembes them and ruins their life forever?