Teen convicted over sulky race avoids jail

The youngest of the men convicted of involvement in a sulky race on the main Cork to Limerick road, which became a YouTube sensation, avoided jail yesterday for his part in the dangerous escapade.

Judge Olann Kelleher recalled at Cork District Court that a number of the participants in the race involving horse-drawn sulky cars on the dual carriageway had been jailed.

However, the judge said that he was taking into consideration the fact that James Stokes was only 17 at the time of the event.