Judge blasts ‘hip-flask defence’ in hurler’s drink-driving case

A drink-driving case was dramatically dismissed against a two-time All Star hurler last night after his uncle admitted giving him whiskey after the sports star had knocked down a pedestrian.

District court judge Eugene O’Kelly blasted Mark Foley and his uncle Jerry Foley — a former garda — after Mr Foley’s defence counsel used the so-called ‘hip-flask defence’.

After dismissing the State’s case, Judge O’Kelly said he was “gravely concerned there was cuteness and conniving between the uncle and his nephew”.