“I very stupidly and naively thought it was acceptable for my boyfriend to reply on my behalf to explain to the police it was him that [was] driving, it wasn’t me,” she said.
Chairman of the magistrates’ bench David Holley asked Flanagan if Mr Talbot would be able to drive her car if she was banned.
She said: “I would feel really, really angry if my boyfriend was to take that away from me and then he’d drive my car.
“I don’t think that would sit well with me.”
Patrick Boyers, defending, said: “She is a single mother of three children and she is doing her best.
“I would invite you to look at this case on the cold, hard facts of who is in front of you and I would invite you to find that exceptional hardship is a real possibility.”
Flanagan offered to pay the fine in £1,000 monthly instalments.
She was given six penalty points for each offence.
