16 months ban for over-the-limit Toomebridge motorist caught on M2 motorway
A motorist caught drink driving on the M2 motorway near Antrim town has been banned from the roads for 16 months and fined £300.
The defendant was detected around 3.50am on Monday May 4.
Antrim Magistrates Court, sitting in Ballymena, was told Peter McGreevy (24), of Ballyscullion Road near Toomebridge, had an alcohol in breath reading of 59 - the legal limit is 35.
A defence barrister said the defendant had been on a night out in Belfast and thought he was "fine" to drive.
The court was told the defendant had driven from Belfast to Hillsborough and from there to where he was stopped in the Rathbeg area.
He is "extremely apologetic and remorseful", the court was told. He had a clear record.
District Judge Nigel Broderick told McGreevy: "The journey you undertook was extremely dangerous. You may have felt you were fit and able to drive but clearly you were not. The fact that you drove so far is a major aggravating feature".