A woman who was stopped by the police after she visited members of her family and while over the drink-drive limit has been jailed for five weeks.

Anne Denise McNamara, 51, of Cronk Grianagh, Strang, pleaded guilty to charges of being absent from her residence and drink-driving.

She appeared, via video link, before Deputy High Bailiff Chris Arrowsmith on Friday. The court heard McNamara had visited her parents’ home in West Baldwin for dinner on April 22.

She was stopped by police at 7.15pm after information was received she may be intoxicated.

Prosecutor Rebecca Cubbon said the officer who stopped McNamara described her eyes as glazed and said there was a strong smell of alcohol. She failed a roadside breath test.

At police headquarters, McNamara gave a reading of 66mg. The legal limit is 35.

Ms Cubbon said McNamara had previously been warned by police on April 15 for breaching the regulations of the Emergency Powers Act.

Defence advocate David Clegg said that since the start of the regulations prohibiting movement, McNamara’s teenage daughter had lived with her grandparents.

Both this breach and the previous warning related to times when she had been seeing her daughter. Mr Clegg said there had been a ’misunderstanding’ over the rules.

Mr Clegg said McNamara had not drunk that day but had been drinking ’the night before into the early hours’.

Mr Arrowsmith said: ’Breaching the regulations is a serious matter in themselves, doing so while in drink is an aggravating matter.’

He said she deserved credit for supporting her family, but had ’potentially created a greater risk of harm’.

McNamara was also banned from driving for two years and fined £1,000.