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Retired farmer appeared before Tullamore District Court
A retired farmer who works voluntarily for the Embrace Farm safety organisation was fined €300 after Tullamore District Court heard how he was driving an untaxed tractor when he was stopped on his way to a repair centre to get seven tyres on a trailer replaced.
A RETIRED farmer was on his way to get tyres replaced on a trailer when he was stopped by a garda on the Tullamore-Portlaoise road.
Daniel Lynam (72), Dromore, Castletown-Geoghegan, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, was summonsed for being the user of a tyre with a lump, bulge, tear or partial failure on the N80 at Cloncon, Co Offaly on September 4 last year.
Garda Stephen O'Hanlon, Portlaoise Garda Station, told Tullamore District Court that at 10.39am on that date he saw a red and black 2006 registered Case tractor being driven on the N80 with its tax out for over 2,000 days.
The tyres on its trailer appeared to be in very poor condition and the driver said he was going to a tyre repair centre when he was stopped.
Garda O'Hanlon said the distance to the tyre repair centre would be 20km “door to door”.
The garda added that while a fixed charge penalty notice for the road tax offence had been paid, another for the offence involving the tyre had not.
Garda O'Hanlon also said he refused a request for a cancellation of the tyre offence. A photograph of a tyre, which was “completely disintegrated” was handed in to Judge Andrew Cody.
Mr Lynam told the court he had previously been in a farm accident and he was not able to change the wheels on the trailer himself, hence his journey to Hinch's for the repair.
He knew he needed seven new tyres and he got them put on. He also said he made an effort to pay the fixed charge penalty notice but the system was down in Streamstown post office.
He said he had been only one or two miles away from Hinch's when he was stopped.
Mr Lynam further explained that he was a retired dairy farmer who now worked on his son's farm.
He also did a lot of voluntary work talking to students in colleges about farm safety for the Embrace Farm organisation.
“It may be contradictory,” added Mr Lynam.
Judge Cody responded: “There's a slight contradiction when you look at that tyre.”
The judge fined the man €300 and gave him three months to pay it.
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