{"id":131468,"date":"2025-10-19T05:44:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131468\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T05:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T05:44:11","slug":"i-have-to-watch-the-clock-myself-on-cork-bypass-says-judge-who-struck-out-speeding-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/131468\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I have to watch the clock myself\u2019 on Cork bypass, says judge who struck out speeding case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"contextmenu internal_Body1st\">A Kerry man who failed to pay a fixed charge penalty notice for breaking the speed limit on a busy road had given his mother the money to pay the fine, the district court has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Sergeant Trish O\u2019Sullivan said that on January 20, 2025, at 6.26pm, a garda speed check on the Macroom bypass in Co Cork detected Martin Joseph McElligott, aged 22, of Fahavane, Kilflynn, Co Kerry, driving at 127km\/h in a 100km\/h zone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">McElligott, who was heading west towards Kerry, was issued a fixed penalty notice for the offence, but failed to pay it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">McElligott told the court that he was \u201cup the country\u201d and had given the money to his mother to pay the fine, but she had forgotten about it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Defence solicitor Sean Cahill said McElligott worked for his father\u2019s haulage company and did a lot of driving, mostly on motorways where the speed limit was 120km\/h and the dual carriageway in Macroom was a similar type of road \u2014 though the limit was only 100km\/h.<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Judge Joanne Carroll said: \u201cI\u2019d say the whole of Kerry is talking about that road. It\u2019s a very good road, and I have to watch the clock myself when I\u2019m on it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"contextmenu Body Body\">Judge Carroll said it must be widely known that the limit on the road is 100km\/h, and she struck out the proceedings.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"listbullet\">\n<li>This article is funded by the Courts Reporting Scheme<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Kerry man who failed to pay a fixed charge penalty notice for breaking the speed limit on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[781,9,10,2013,27,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-131468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-cork-news","9":"tag-breaking-news","10":"tag-breakingnews","11":"tag-cork-court","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-featured-news","15":"tag-featurednews","16":"tag-headlines","17":"tag-ie","18":"tag-ireland","19":"tag-latest-news","20":"tag-latestnews","21":"tag-main-news","22":"tag-mainnews","23":"tag-news","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}