Two-year driving ban for Limerick hurler triggers previous conviction for violent disorder

Limerick hurler Kyle Hayes has been given a two-year driving ban after he was convicted of dangerous driving after being detected driving at 155km/h.

Hayes, of Ballyashea, Kildimo, Co Limerick, appeared before Judge Colm Roberts at Mallow District Court today in connection with the incident which occurred while travelling towards Mallow on July 14.

The court heard that he overtook nine cars on the dual carriageway in his white Audi A6, which was detected travelling at 155km/h in a 100km/h zone.

He was returning to Limerick from west Cork, the court heard.

Judge Roberts said that speed is one of the main factors in road deaths and said: 

“I am trying to keep him alive as well as everything else. There are too many deaths on the road at this time.”

On convicting Hayes of dangerous driving, Judge Roberts gave him a mandatory two-year driving ban and fined him €250, with three months to pay.

The conviction is now a trigger for Hayes’s previous conviction at Limerick Circuit Court on two counts of violent disorder after a young man was attacked inside and outside a nightclub, for which he was given a two-year suspended sentence in March.

That case will now return to Limerick Circuit Court. Hayes’s barrister, Liam Carroll, indicated that his client may appeal today’s conviction.