Father not guilty of impeding prosecution

A 72-year-old man on trial for impeding the prosecution of his son for dangerous driving causing death was cleared of the charge yesterday.

Judge Seán Ó Donnabháin directed the jury to find Dan Joe Fitzgerald not guilty following legal argument.

The judge told the jurors that press reports sometimes use the phrase, “dismissed on a technicality”, but he said that would be a misrepresentation of what had happened in this case.