Care assistant was more than five times over the legal limit
Wed, Nov 11, 2026
When Gardaí responded to an apparently abandoned car at Addergoole, Headford Road, they found a man so deeply asleep in the vehicle that they called for an ambulance to assist.
The car was stationary in a dangerous location with no lights on a pitch-black night, March 4, 2025, and responding Gardaí found it very difficult to wake him.
It transpired that Basil Kuriakose, 1 Doire Beg, Derrymullen, Ballinasloe, was so intoxicated that Judge Fiona Lydon told Galway District Court that the alcohol levels in his system were very concerning.
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