A young man's childhood ambition to be a train driver almost came true but for the vigilance of staff at Galway's Ceannt Station, who caught him trespassing in the engine compartment of a stationary train. Ann Healy reports.
David O'Carroll (21), from Cortober, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co Roscommon, was sounding the horn and pulling levers while the train engine was stationary but "ticking over", Galway District Court heard yesterday.
Gardaí were called to the station in the early hours of January 28th last after staff found the accused, who was very drunk, in the engine compartment. "He was playing trains," Judge Mary Fahy observed.
Defence solicitor John Naughton said that maybe his client had always wanted to be a train driver, but he didn't want to go into that right now.
He said his client was pleading guilty to trespassing on the train, to breaching the peace and to being drunk at the time.
Judge Fahy convicted and fined the accused €300 for breaching the peace and €100 for being drunk in public.