Banned motorist’s ‘bizarre’ driving

Radio warnings were broadcast and motorists had to take evasive action to avoid colliding with a man driving his car the wrong way down motorway lanes linking Limerick to Ennis.

At Ennis District Court yesterday, Patrick Cotter, aged 54, of Church St, Bandon, Co Cork, pleaded guilty to six charges of dangerous driving in relation to a series of incidents along a 41km stretch of motorway from Cratloe to Crusheen on June 18.

Clare FM told motorists a driver was heading in the wrong way on the south- and north-bound lanes linking Limerick to Ennis.