Ross youth volunteers’ hard work recognised Drove away from scene of accident
YOUTH NEW ROSS held an awards night recently recognising the hard work of volunteers working in the community over recent years.
On December 5, Youth New Ross held a volunteer recognition evening to thank the local volunteers who form an integral part of the organisation.
Youth New Ross’s manager Sharon Grace said: ‘Volunteers have been involved in Youth New Ross for the last 23 years. They have been there right from the start and continue to be a core part of Youth New Ross’.
Volunteers were presented with plaques at the special ceremony as a token of the body’s appreciation at the youth centre in Bowling Green, the Bullawn.
Youth New Ross chairperson Joan Power said: ‘Volunteers are an important part of Youth New Ross, without whom we wouldn’t be able to reach as many young people as we do.’
Youth New Ross was established in 1994 and since then it has evolved in a multi-disciplinary team which provides youth work supports, family support and Garda youth diversion activities to New Ross and South Wexford. For more information visit youthnewross.com. MICHAEL MCDONALD (48) from Ramsgrange was handed a four-year driving ban on conviction for a hit and run offence.
Sitting at the District Court in Wexford, Judge Gerard Haughton concluded that the defendant was probably not responsible for the accident which left Michael Kehoe injured in the car park of the Sláinte pub.
However, McDonald erred when he drove away rather than staying at the scene and reporting the matter to gardaí.
The prosecution was taken after Garda John O’Leary was called to the car park in the early hours of May 2 last year.
He discovered casualty Kehoe from Apple Wood, Boderan, who said he had been hit by a car.
Witness David Tubritt from Monageer, Foulksmills, reckoned that the vehicle involved was a silver-coloured Renault.
He eventually tracked down McDonald who told him that a man had run into his car and that he left as he thought the man might be on drugs.
The garda told defending solicitor Gerry Flynn that both Kehoe and Tubritt were both very drunk that night.
The injured man was brought to Wexford General where he was x-rayed before being discharged without treatment. In the witness box, he said had been drinking cider but felt he was not completely incapacitated.
Tubritt told how he heard the ‘ thump’ of the collision as he sat in his van and then fetched some coats to put around the casualty.
Mr Flynn argued that the defendant was afraid because of the attitude of the two men. The solicitor also pointed out that there was no evidence of injury to Michael Kehoe.
However, Judge Haughton ruled that McDonald had an obligation to remain and report: ‘He should have stayed.’
The farmer defendant was fined a total of €600 and put off the road for four years.