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A woman who had fallen on hard times, while her husband had been serving a term of imprisonment, appeared before Athlone District Court on Wednesday october 5

A man who assaulted three gardaí after being arrested for urinating in the street avoided a jail sentence in the District Court this week (September 7) because of a favourable probation report, but will still have to do 150 hours of community service.

A woman complimented for taking time out from the Galway Races to face public order charges, had her case struck out after she made a €150 contribution to the poor box at the year’s final sitting of the District Court last week.

A mother and son charged with criminal damage to their neighbours’ cars in Willow Park were remanded in custody to appear back at Longford District Court next week (June 14) after the court learned both defendants committed the alleged offences whilst on bail for previous offences.

A judge accepted the arithmetic correction of a solicitor in court this week (April 27) after he miscalculated by a factor of nine the period of restitution required by a former employee trying to pay back over €10,000.

An Athlone man convicted of threatening to burn down two homes and who assaulted arresting gardaí with a toilet seat before being subdued with pepper spray, was jailed for a total of nine months in the District Court this week (April 13).

A man who worked as a security guard during the construction of the N6 between Athlone and Galway and was fired when he was found asleep in his car by a supervisor in the early hours, was awarded a total of €1,860 at the most recent sitting of the Employment Appeals Tribunal in Athlone which found he had his job terminated without due process.

A judge held up the immediate payment of legal aid to three unemployed men charged separately with dealing heroin in the District Court this week (March 23), after each of them was found with a value of heroin greater than their weekly dole payment.

Mullingar and Athlone will be at the centre of a new brand which aims to promote the Midlands for business, tourism, education, and culture.

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.