Sportsmen, golf buggys and nights out are three things that should never mix. Galway hurler Johnny Coen is the latest athlete to find himself on the wrong side of the law after being caught drunkenly driving a golf buggy at 4.20am after a wedding last year.
According to today's Irish Independent, Coen was disqualified from driving for 14 months at Enniskillen Magistrates Court last Monday after pleading guilty to drunkenly driving a golf buggy near Enniskillen following teammate David Collins' wedding last November:
He was stopped by police after they received calls of a buggy being driven on the main Lough Shore Road, Silverhill, at 4.20am in the morning.
The court heard that Mr Coen had travelled four miles from the resort and was "weaving" along the road when police stopped him, according to reports in the Fermanagh Herald.
An unnamed Galway hurler was accompanying Coen in the golf buggy when PSNI officers stopped the golf cart.
Coen now enters the short but elite list of athletes who've been busted for driving a golf buggy under the influence following celebratory events. Andy Powell, the Wales backrow, was famously arrested on the M4 in a golf buggy the morning after Wales beat Scotland in the 2010 Six Nations.
