A 30-year-old Ennis man, ‘out of his mind’ on cocaine and in a state of undress in his parked car, reached for a bag of cocaine and snorted from it in the presence of a garda, a court has heard.
At Ennis District Court, Judge Alec Gabbett imposed a four-month prison term and imposed a four-year driving ban on Shane McCarthy.
Results from the Medical Bureau of Road Safety found that McCarthy was 67 times over the legal limit for cocaine while in charge of a motor vehicle on March 30th last year at Magowna, Inch outside Ennis, Co Clare.
Judge Alec Gabbett said: “This is the highest reading I have ever come across.”
McCarthy of Shanacloon, Shanballa, Lahinch Road, Ennis, pleaded guilty to the ‘drug’ road traffic charge where the reading showed that the concentration of Benzoylecgonine (cocaine) in his blood was at 3,346 ng/ml on March 30th, 2025.
