A MAN pleaded not guilty to holding his mobile phone while driving and said, instead, what he was holding was a sat nav on a phone to find his way around Portlaoise as he was new to the area.

Gardaí attended the scene of a road traffic collision that occurred on the Kilmurry Roundabout, Castletroy, Co Limerick on Tuesday 18th November 2025 at approximately 10pm.

Jacob Kotze believes that if he had been driving at speed, the deer, which hit the bonnet of the car, would have been thrown through the windscreen and into him.

The motorist was left terrified that they had hit a real person

Oscar Adonis Marchat, of Elton Park, Sandycove, Dublin, won a small claims case against Dublin Street Parking Services Ltd.

The car displayed expired tax and NCT discs and when the man was asked to produce his license he told the garda he had left it at home.