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An Athlone couple had a seven year battle with a builder formally resolved in the Circuit Court this week (December 7), when a judge awarded them over €33,000 in lieu of shoddy work at their home.

A Ballymore woman who worked in Mullingar and crashed her car in Loughnavalley with traces of tranquillizers and cannabis in her system whilst trying to get home in the early hours, was banned from driving for four years in the Circuit Court in Athlone this week (December 7).

A lorry driver who spent six and a half hours in the pub with his wife after watching the Munster-Leinster Heineken Cup semi-final last year, and was then arrested after he chose to drive less than a kilometre to his house because it was raining, had his two year and one day District Court driving ban upheld in the Circuit Court in Athlone this week (December 8).

A man who used a horse whip on his wife, stabbed her in the head with a set of keys, swung a phone charger at her head, and threatened to kill a woman who gave her refuge, failed in his appeal against the severity of a two year prison sentence in the Circuit Court this week (December 7).

A young woman charged as a juvenile in connection with the Dalton Park riot has been given extra time to complete her community service.

There was dignified chaos at the opening day of this term’s sitting of Mullingar Circuit Court when barristers, solicitors, and defendants were unable to appear on Tuesday (November 30) because of the weather.

The mother of a four-year-old boy killed when a disqualified driver ploughed into him on a Westmeath road says she is horrified his four month prison sentence has been remitted.

A 10 year sentence was handed down to a “very articulate and clever criminal” whose local knowledge was “central” to a raid on the home of a well known Westmeath businessman.

A man who claimed a foldable knife found on his person in the town centre in the early hours was for “layin’ lino” and that he’d forgotten it was still in his pocket, failed in his appeal against a six month jail sentence in the Circuit Court (July 21).

A soldier and his unemployed brother who inflicted €16,000 worth of damage to a nightclub owner’s teeth in an unprovoked assault, had their jail sentences extended but suspended in the Circuit Court this week where it was revealed that three quarters of the €10,000 compensation brought to court by the two was raised by an evangelical congregation in Curraghboy, Co Roscommon attended by the elder sibling.