€500 fine for driver who hit food critic

A taxi man convicted of careless driving after food critic Tom Doorley was knocked down and seriously injured has been fined €500 but spared a livelihood-threatening road ban.

Mr Doorley suffered two broken shoulders during the incident, Dublin District Court heard.

Taxi driver Mark Cruikshanks, aged 38, of Cushlawn Park, Tallaght, Dublin, pleaded not guilty to careless driving at Fleet St in Dublin on October 17, 2014.