Ex-garda remanded for drunk driving causing death
A retired member of the Garda Special Branch has been remanded for sentence for drunk driving causing death and for failing to remain at the scene of an accident.
Frank Hayes (aged 53), of Glengara Park, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to dangerous driving causing the death of Mr Gordon Geary on July 24, 2004.
He also pleaded guilty to failing to stop at the scene, to driving while drunk on the same occasion and to causing serious injury to three women.
Judge Desmond Hogan remanded him on continuing bail for sentence on December 7 and directed the preparation of a victim impact report.
The charges relate to two accidents that happened within minutes of each other at Blackglen Road and Enniskerry Road, Co Dublin.
Two young women, Edel Halligan and Natalie Woods, were seriously injured as they waited for a taxi after a party at Lamb Doyle's pub on Blackglen Road.
The charges also relate to a second incident minutes later in which two Mercedes cars collided on the Enniskerry Road, resulting in the death of Mr Geary (aged 71) and serious injury to his wife, Joy.
Mr Hayes, who was 52 at the time of the accidents, had already retired from the Garda Special Detective Unit and was described as a cab-driver when he appeared at Dun Laoghaire District Court on March 4 last.
