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Man pleads guilty to careless driving

A 33-year-old man has been remanded in custody after he pleaded guilty to careless driving, causing the death of a man in Roscommon in 2016.

Dylan Byrne, 22, was a passenger in the car at the time of the crash at Ardcarne near Boyle, on 9 August.

RTE.ie report that Luigi Forte, with an address of New Street Gardens, Dublin 8, had 116 previous convictions including five for driving without a driving licence, 20 for having no insurance, one for dangerous driving, one for careless driving and three charges of possession of drugs with intent to supply.

At a sentencing hearing in Roscommon Circuit Court, Judge Keenan Johnson said Mr Forte’s record of driving without insurance was one of the worst he had ever seen.

You can read the full RTE.ie report here

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