Ivor Callely fined over NCT disc

Former Fianna Fáil TD and minister of state Ivor Callely has today been fined for failing to display a valid NCT disc on his car.

The case appeared before Judge Bridget Reilly at Dublin District Court this afternoon where the former politician was fined €150 under the Road Traffic Act 1961. Mr Callely was not in court himself but was represented by a lawyer.

Mr Callely (53), with an address on St Lawrence Road, Clontarf, north Dublin, was stopped by a garda while driving a car, with an 06-D registration, on the Springdale Road in Raheny in July 2011.

He has two months in which to pay the fine or he will face a 10-day sentence.

Last April, Mr Callely was fined €60 in court for using a mobile phone while driving.

Mr Callely was elected to the Dáil in 1989. He lost his Dáil seat in 2007 but was then selected by former taoiseach Bertie Ahern as a senator in he Upper House.

He resigned from Fianna Fáil in 2010 following revelations he had claimed over €80,000 in travel and subsistence expenses from his west Cork holiday home.

Mr Callely did not contest the 2011 Seanad election.