Attempted carjacker avoids jail term

A woman was dragged from her car and knocked to the ground by a man trying to take her vehicle at a service station.

Hugh Maguire was yesterday given a suspended jail sentence after the case had previously been adjourned to permit him to seek addiction treatment at Coolmine in Co Dublin.

Elizabeth O’Connell, defending, spoke of Maguire’s period in treatment: “Not only has he passed but passed with flying colours.”