Former TD Colm Keaveney is due to be sentenced on Tuesday for driving under the influence of cocaine.
Keaveney (54), of Kilcrevanty, Tuam, Co Galway, pleaded guilty to the charge at Tuam District Court on September 9th, in addition to two counts of driving with no insurance.
He was due to be sentenced at a sitting of Tuam District Court last month but the case was adjourned as the resident judge, Judge James Faughnan, who had dealt with the matter in previous sittings, was absent.
The sentencing had earlier been adjourned, in November, for the same reason.
The case had been adjourned 10 times before Keaveney entered guilty pleas.
Keaveney was arrested after being stopped at a checkpoint…