Drunk sales manager spared jail for punching and threatening to kill Limerick taxi driver

Court told accused 'scared the living daylights' out of driver during aborted Limerick to Clare run

Judge Mary Larkin imposed two suspended one-month terms on the accused.

A 47-year-old sales account manager punched a taxi driver and screamed that he was going to kill him during a taxi journey outside Ennis, a court has heard.

At Ennis District Court, Judge Mary Larkin said that a drunken Brendan Farrell “scared the living daylights” out of Limerick taxi driver, Niall Moran (57) during the incident on a road at Clonroadmore, on the outskirts of Ennis, on June 23, 2020.