He was convicted of dangerous driving in Cork last September which triggered the previous sentence.
Five times All Ireland winning Limerick Hurler Kyle Hayes will be in court this morning to hear if he is being sent to prison.
Earlier this week a judge at Limerick Circuit Court adjourned his decision on whether to activate a two-year suspended sentence for violent disorder imposed on the Limerick hurler last March.
In March 2024, following Hayes’s trial at Limerick Circuit Court the previous December, concurrent suspended sentences of two years and 18 months were imposed on him, after a jury convicted him of two counts of committing violent disorder, in which carpenter, Cillian McCarthy, sustained serious facial injuries.
Hayes was acquitted by the jury of a charge of assaulting Mr McCarthy causing harm, at the Icon nightclub, Limerick City, however, the sentencing Judge Dermot Sheehan said it would not have happened “if not for Kyle Hayes”.
A condition of Hayes’s suspended sentences was that he be of good behaviour and not commit any other offences for two years from last March.
Hayes broke these terms when he was convicted last September of dangerous driving in Cork in July 2024, for which he received a fine of €250 and a two-year driving ban at Mallow District Court.
The five-time All Ireland winning hurler was detected by Gardaí driving an Audi A6 at 155kph in a 100kph speed zone on the N20 on July 14th, 2024. Hayes allegedly overtook nine cars on the dual carriage way and was pursued by Gardaí and arrested after Hayes told the garda he was “running out of road and had to pull back in” front of the nine cars he had overtaken.
