BANNED DRIVER JAILED FOR TERROR IN TUNNEL

Yob rammed two Garda cars and endangered maintenance workers

- OLIVIA KELLEHER

A BANNED driver who rammed Garda cars and drove the wrong way through a tunnel has been jailed for two-and-a-half years. 

Tony Caulfield, 26, of Cathedral Road in Gurranabraher, Cork, appeared before the city’s Circuit Criminal Court having pleaded guilty to endangerment, dangerous driving and criminal damage.

Caulfield admitted endangering life on November 18, 2021, when he drove against oncoming traffic on the N20 at Mallow Road, Killeens, Co Cork, causing risk of death or injury.

He also pleaded guilty to intentionally ramming two Garda cars on the same date.