Woman drove in Portlaoise while 15 times over the drug limit

A woman admitted taking a car and driving while drunk and 15 times over the drug limit. 

Leanne Kavanagh, 25, with an address at 2895 St Patrick’s Park, Kill, Co Kildare admitted to the unauthorised taking of a car at Rossdarragh Glen, driving while over the drink and drug driving limit at Borris Road in Portlaoise and hit and run at Rathevan Close, Portlaoise on October 15 last year. 

David Nugent BL said his client had been drinking on the night before the incident and has no recollection of the incident but accepts the charges. 

“She was in the middle of an emotional and mental breakdown,” he explained. 

The sitting of Portlaoise District Court was told the woman had no previous convictions and hadn’t come to garda attention since.

Judge Andrew Cody fined the woman a total of €1,300 and disqualified her from driving for four years. 

He said he wasn’t surprised she couldn’t remember anything as the reading for cocaine was 15 times above the limit.