Ex-garda remanded for drunk driving causing death

A retired member of the Garda Special Branch has been remanded for sentence for drunk driving causing death and for failing to remain at the scene of an accident.

Frank Hayes (aged 53), of Glengara Park, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to dangerous driving causing the death of Mr Gordon Geary on July 24, 2004.