A 24-year-old woman accused of leading 20 garda cars and a helicopter on a pursuit on the M50 has been ordered to hand over her passport to prevent her leaving the country.
Gemma Greene, from Bunratty Road, Coolock, Dublin, is charged with two counts of dangerous driving on the M50 at junctions 4 and 9 northbound on 1 March.
On that day, gardaí followed a car on the M50 until it stopped at Hampton Wood Drive area of Ballymun. Footage of the pursuit was livestreamed online and went viral on social media.
After the incident, Ms Greene was arrested, charged and granted station bail to appear in court last Thursday.
At that time Judge Treasa Kelly ordered Ms Greene to go home and return today to finish quarantine because she had recently been out of the country.
She appeared again today at Dublin District Court.
Garda Jane Keegan told Judge Kelly that the accused had a tendency to leave the country and had recently been to Spain.
For those reasons, she asked the court to amend Ms Greene's bail and insert several conditions, to stay out of Ballymun, remain sober, surrender her passport, reside at her current address, obey a curfew at her home, and sign on daily at Coolock Garda Station.
The garda's application was made under section six of the Bail Act.
Defence solicitor John Quinn said that only related to court bail, not bail granted at a garda station. His client had come back to Ireland; had already answered bail twice; the issue raised by the garda was extraneous and could be dealt with through health regulations, he submitted.
However, Judge Kelly replied that she had the power under common law to change the conditions. Circumstances had changed because the accused had left the country, she ruled.
Garda Keegan told the court a file has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions and directions are outstanding.
She said the charges related to a traffic pursuit: "Up to 20 garda patrol cars and a garda air support unit were involved". A large amount of statements needed to be taken, Garda Keegan added.
Judge Kelly imposed the bail conditions and ordered Ms Greene to appear in court in four weeks to monitor them.
She told her the curfew would run from 11pm to 6am daily; she had until 9pm today to surrender her passport to gardaí and she must not apply for new travel documents.
Ms Greene has not yet indicated how she will plead.
