A car belonging to Healy Eames was seized in Galway city on 2 July 2012 for failure to display a valid car disc. She told the "Galway Advertiser": "I was using public transport up and down to Dublin and I had neglected the car tax. There is no excuse. I was completely in the wrong". Healy Eames was then fined for boarding the Galway-Dublin train without a ticket on 12 July 2012, 10 days after her car was seized. She was convicted and fined €1,850 for the motor tax offence.