Kildare driver on way to rugby camp found to have no insurance

A SPECIAL Needs Assistant from Co Kildare on his way to a rugby summer camp was detected by gardaí crossing a continuous white line just outside Castletown in Laois.

When the driver was stopped gardaí found he had been driving while uninsured. A fixed charge notice was issued to him which went unpaid.

That was the evidence given at a recent sitting of Portlaoise District Court when 24-year old Francisco Bartorelli May from Silken Vale, Maynooth, Kildare pleaded guilty to having no insurance when stopped by gardaí at Aghafin, Castletown, Co Laois on 30 July last.

Mr Bartorelli's solicitor told Judge Andrew Cody that his client worked as a Special Needs Assistant and that morning he had been on his way to Roscrea College to take part in a rugby summer camp.

He said that he had just bought the car a week before he was stopped by the gardaí.

Judge Cody convicted the defendant of the offence and fined him €500.