Meath<\/a>, received a 20-month jail sentence in 2014 after pleading guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to careless driving causing the death of Conor Hickey at Faussagh Road in Cabra, on December 2nd, 2011. He also admitted to a charge of failing to remain at the scene of an accident.<\/p>\nConor Hickey\u2019s family and the garda\u00ed are opposed to the restoration of Tracey\u2019s driving licence. <\/p>\n
At the 2014 sentence hearing, Judge Mary Ellen Ring said she was bound by the legislation before she imposed the prison term and disqualified Tracey from driving for 20 years. <\/p>\n
On Wednesday <\/b>Pieter Le Vert, prosecuting, outlined the evidence heard in the previous sentence hearing. <\/p>\n
He said Tracey admitted that he had driven into the city with a friend that day to buy heroin. <\/p>\n
Det Garda Jonathan Brady told the court the road was wet that evening and Tracey\u2019s passenger told him he had \u201chit somebody\u201d. Tracey continued to drive at speed before he parked his car and went to buy the drugs. He was arrested almost three weeks later.<\/p>\n
The court heard Conor Hickey suffered serious injuries and died the following day. <\/p>\n
On arrest Tracey told garda\u00ed he had taken his eyes off the road and he remembered \u201ca thud\u201d. He said he took methadone that day and he drove off because he had no licence or insurance. <\/p>\n
Tracey had 54 previous convictions at the time for robbery, drug and road traffic offences. He has since received three further convictions, in 2017 and 2018, for theft and interfering with an ATM.<\/p>\n
Det Garda Brady accepted he has not come to Garda attention since those more recent convictions and has been employed for a time.<\/p>\n
Tracey, who was representing himself in court, asked Judge Orla Crowe to grant his application to have his licence restored. <\/p>\n
\u201cI am trying to live the rest of my life to the best of my ability without harming others,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n
He said he had been offered a job and the \u201cdriving licence would be helpful\u201d. <\/p>\n
Judge Crowe adjourned the case to February 3rd and asked Mr Le Vert to open the relevant case law before the court on that date. <\/p>\n
At the 2014 hearing, John Hickey said his son\u2019s death hit the family like a tsunami and left a trail of destruction. <\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s impossible to describe the effects a tragedy like this does to a family. It\u2019s like a tsunami that hits a family. It takes everything away in a flash.\u201d <\/p>\n
Conor\u2019s mother Margaret Hickey said she felt a pain in her chest which no pills can cure.<\/p>\n
Det Garda Brady said Conor had finished school that Friday and went straight to a local library to do his homework. He said he went home at about 4pm to eat his dinner and do his household chores before going out to meet up with friends. <\/p>\n
Witnesses who were in cars at the junction of Faussagh Road told garda\u00ed they saw the boy waiting to cross the street.<\/p>\n
They said the car was travelling at speed and came out of nowhere, hitting the young boy as soon as he put his foot on the road when the lights were in his favour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man who was previously disqualified from driving for 20 years when he fatally injured a 14-year-old boy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[9,10,52,18,13,14,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,1873,5,7,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-308585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-dublin","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-featured-news","13":"tag-featurednews","14":"tag-headlines","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-latest-news","18":"tag-latestnews","19":"tag-main-news","20":"tag-mainnews","21":"tag-meath","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-top-stories","24":"tag-topstories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115974576783496545","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308585","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=308585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}