A motorist drove off leaving an injured cyclist lying on the ground after telling him: "Oh, You're all right there," a court heard yesterday.
Judge Katherine Delahunt was told that Vincent Cox's car was doing a U-turn on Dublin's North Circular Road when he crashed into the cyclist.
Onlookers noted Cox's registration number as they rushed to help the cyclist who had to be treated in hospital.
Garda Colm Carolan said Cox, of Rialto Court, Dublin, had a litany of 46 road traffic convictions, four of which had been for driving without insurance. He had been driving while disqualified at the time of the North Circular Road accident.
He said Cox had used a bogus name to buy the car out of Buy and Sell. He had been traced only because other gardaí had later seized the car for not being taxed.
Ms Sarah Jane O'Callaghan, counsel for Cox, said he was appealing against severity of a five months jail sentence for having driven without insurance.
She said Cox had a serious criminal past and was chronically ill and in the advanced stages of HIV and Hepatitis C. He was taking a number of drugs that were keeping him alive.
He had been given a three-year suspended sentence by Judge Michael White last week in relation to an armed robbery of the Irish Nationwide Building Society offices in Palmerstown, Dublin.
Judge Delahunt, considering what had been said on Cox's behalf, suspended the five months sentence for having driven without insurance and bound him over to keep the peace for two years. She said a further disqualification from driving and and endorsement of his driving licence would remain in place.