Drunk driver gets 3 years for killing retired teacher

AFTER a drinking session with friends, a businessman drove his 4x4 from a Co Limerick pub on the wrong side of the road and ploughed into a car killing a retired Clonmel secondary school teacher, Limerick Circuit Court heard.

Jason Gormley, aged 39, with an address at Rathlin, Castleconnell, was yesterday jailed for three years and banned from driving for 20 years after pleading guilty to dangerous driving causing the death of Aidan Lawless, aged 52, of Rathronan, Clonmel, on October 4, 2009, at Ballysimon, near Limerick.

Mr Lawless was returning home with his wife Cathleen that evening, after bringing their daughter, Rachel, to Limerick where she was a student at LIT.