Five-time All-Ireland winning hurler Kyle Hayes’s case will be back in court on Monday in relation to a violent disorder conviction in Limerick.
The case is being re-entered for mention, under Section 99 of the Criminal Justice Act 2006, which allows the Circuit Court to decide whether to activate the two-year suspended sentence he received last March for violent disorder, following his conviction last month for dangerous driving.
Hayes, aged 26, was given a two-year driving ban and a €250 fine by Judge Colm Roberts at Mallow District Court on September 10 for the offence near Mallow on July 14.
The court heard he had no previous convictions for road traffic offences.
However, an application was made at the conclusion of the hearing by Sergeant Majella O’Sullivan to have Hayes, from Ballyashea, Kildimo, Co Limerick, returned to Limerick Circuit Court, where a decision will be made on whether a two-year suspended sentence he was given in March for violent disorder will be re-activated following his conviction.
The sentence related to his conviction last December on two counts of violent disorder — after a young man was attacked inside and outside a nightclub.
Hayes had pleaded not guilty to two violent disorder charges and one charge of assault causing harm to Cillian McCarthy in and outside the Icon nightclub in Limerick on October 28, 2019. However, he was convicted by a jury at Limerick Circuit Criminal Court last December of two counts of violent disorder. He was found not guilty of assault.
In March, Judge Dermot Sheehan sentenced Hayes to 18 months in prison for the first count of violent disorder and two years in prison for the second count of violent disorder. The sentences were to run concurrently.
However, Judge Sheehan said it would be “of no benefit to society” to give Hayes an immediate custodial sentence and suspended it.
Hayes was ordered to pay €10,000 compensation to Mr McCarthy in two instalments of €5,000 each.
Last month, Mallow District Court heard that Hayes overtook nine cars on the dual carriageway in his 191-registered white Audi A6, which was detected travelling at 155km/h in a 100km/h zone, northbound at Lissavoura, Grenagh, close to Mallow. He was returning to Limerick from West Cork.
He was observed overtaking nine cars travelling at varying speeds between 80km/h and 95km/h.
The court heard that the section of the road alternates between dual and single carriageways in both directions.
The court heard that Hayes pulled into the left lane of the dual carriageway as it reduced to one lane, having just overtaken the nine cars. He was arrested for dangerous driving.
