Defending solicitor Josehine Fitzpatrick said that her client’s partner is currently in the maternity ward at Portlaoise hospital

She was disqualified from driving for refusing to provide a breath sample following a road traffic collision

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.

A short snippet of CCTV footage showed an incident involving two people on the footpath

The defendant's solicitor said her client “concedes she still has a reliance on cannabis”