STAIR THIEF MAGO NEEDS A LIFT NOW

HUTCH gang member James 'Mago' Gately was banned from the roads for a year yesterday after being convicted of drug-driving.

- CHRIS MCNULTY

A day after his plush Coolock home was seized by the Criminal Assets Bureau, Gately appeared before Letterkenny District Court in Co Donegal.

Gately, who has survived multiple hits on his life by the Kinahan cartel, was charged with driving while exceeding the drug-driving limit on May 7 last year.

Gately was stopped at a routine checkpoint at Burn Rock, Killygordon at 2.21pm.

Garda Stephen Joseph Carroll told the court he was operating a multi-agency checkpoint with the Revenue and Road Safety Authority.