Dublin drink driver left woman with brain injury

A woman who was almost three times the legal limit when she knocked down a mother of two, leaving her with a brain injury, has been jailed for three years.

Jayne Kearney, aged 26, told gardaí she had intended to stay at Citywest Hotel that night rather than drive home but she had a row with her boyfriend. She drove off after she hit Blathnaid Molloy, who was walking towards the hotel entrance to get a taxi home.

Kearney, of Foxborough Downs, Lucan, Dublin pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm and driving while intoxicated at City West on March 8, 2014.