‘I didn’t stay within the speed limit and now I’m paying the price for it’

ALAN QUINN sat in his wheelchair looking at the faces of hundreds of tomorrow’s young drivers and told them he’s paying the price for speeding.

‘I didn’t stay within the speed limit and now I’m paying the price for it’

The 39-year-old from Glanworth, Co Cork, suffered brain damage in an horrific accident a few miles from his home in August 1995. The labourer described how he had been socialising the night before.

He “staggered into bed” at 1.30am and had to be up five hours later to drop a friend to Shannon Airport.

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