Truck drivers ‘traumatised but stoic’ after nights in cell

Three articulated truck drivers were “traumatised but stoic” after spending two nights in custody after being detected on YouTube driving their trucks three abreast along the mainLimerick to Tralee road.

The men, two Polish and one Irishman, and all employees of McAuliffe Trucking of Castleisland, Co Kerry, each pleaded guilty last week to dangerous driving in what District Court Judge James O’Connor described as an “outlandish” incident, regardless of any charitable motive involved.

Garda David Kearney, of the Castleisland traffic division, told of how gardaí became aware of the incident when a member of the public saw the video and complained to the Garda National Traffic Bureau.