Case over Kyle Hayes' suspended sentence is put back

An application on whether a two-year suspended sentence imposed on Limerick hurler Kyle Hayes will be activated is due to be brought before Limerick Circuit court on 9 December next.

The suspended sentence was imposed on the 26-year-old from Ballyashea, Kildimo, Co Limerick, last March after he was convicted of two counts of violent assault in which another young man received serious injuries.

The charges arose following a number of incidents inside and outside a nightclub in Limerick city on 28 October 2019.

He had pleaded not guilty to the charges and was convicted by a jury after a two-week trial late last year.

He received a sentence of 18 months, and one of two years on both counts, to run concurrently - and suspended on condition that he be bound to the peace and be of good behaviour during that two-year term.

Subsequent to that sentence, Hayes was convicted at Mallow District Court last September of dangerous driving when he was caught driving at 155km in a 100km zone near Mallow in Co Cork on 14 July last.

The case was listed for re-entry at Limerick Circuit Court today, which was told he is now appealing the dangerous driving conviction, and a date for that has not yet been set at Cork Circuit Court.

Judge Elva Duffy agreed to put the case back to 9 December next with liberty to change that date in advance if further news emerges about an appeal hearing.

The court was told it may well take that period of time up to the first week in December for the appeal to proceed.