Callely gets €150 fine for driving car without NCT disc
Callely, who resigned from the Seanad after controversy surrounding his expenses, had received a summons for a road traffic offence of using a car without displaying a valid NCT disc, at Springdale Road, Raheny, Dublin, on July 7 last year. The 53-year-old, of St Lawrence’s Road, Clontarf, was not present for his hearing but was represented by a solicitor.
A guilty plea was entered and traffic Garda Dominic Noonan told Judge Bridget Reilly that when Callely was stopped he told him the car had passed the NCT. But Gda Noonan said it transpired it had not. The car was tested five days later and failed. Retested on July 14, it passed. Mr Callely had thought the car — his wife’s — was exempted from the NCT. However, it was clarified that the exemption in question only applied to motor tax.
