Banned Cork driver rammed garda cars and drove wrong way through Jack Lynch Tunnel

Accused jailed for 'appalling litany of driving offences covering large swathes of Cork City'

Defendant was also sentenced for offences on February 25, 2021, when he sped in the wrong direction through the Jack Lynch Tunnel while maintenance staff were working in the early hours of the morning. Picture: Eddie O'Hare

A motorist showed a contemptuous attitude to driving bans by committing multiple further counts of endangerment and dangerous driving — including the ramming of garda cars and driving the wrong way through a bore of the Jack Lynch tunnel when maintenance work was being done.

That was the view of Judge Dara Hayes in the cases against Tony Caulfield at Cork Circuit Criminal Court as he imposed a sentence of four and a half years with the last two years suspended.