A motorist who killed a group of three friends when his car crashed into them at high speed has been jailed for three years.
Trim Circuit Criminal Court had been told that Marius Tamulevicius had several bottles of beer and shots of vodka before the accident in the early hours of 8 January 2006.
38-year-old Philip Quinn, Paul Lennon who was 42, and Slawomir Kreznek, a 34-year-old Polish national, died at the scene.
Last February Tamulevicius had pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing their deaths.
The court was told the Lithuanian national had come to Ireland with his wife and daughter to build a better life for them. Since the accident he had suffered post-traumatic shock and had received psychiatric treatment.
His barrister suggested the defendant may have had an epileptic seizure but Judge Michael O'Shea rejected that.
Judge O'Shea said alcohol and speed were the main factors. He said Tamulevicius had written letters to the families of the deceased and he accepted he had expressed regret at the earliest stage.
He sentenced the defendant to three years imprisonment, backdated to last February when Tamulevicius was remanded in custody.
