No jail for Cork student who was filmed boasting while drink-driving before crash

The three passengers were injured and one of them ended up in intensive care with a lacerated liver and one of his kidneys has been reduced to 10% of its function.

One condition of the suspension — something suggested by the accused himself — is that he would return to his primary school sixth class pupils and to his secondary school and address students about the dangers of drink-driving. File picture

A Leaving Cert student boasted and joked as he was filmed drinking behind the wheel of his car shortly before crashing into a wall causing serious injuries to his friends travelling with him.

The video made against a background of rap music showed 18-year-old Seán Barrett of Wheatridge, Maryborough Woods, Cork, laughing and joking about drink-driving in his Volkswagen Polo after they had all been at a match earlier that day — December 3, 2021. He is now 20 and faced sentencing at Cork Circuit Criminal Court.