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Four defendants were convicted of illegally disposing of their litter at Ballina District Court on Tuesday after an environmental enforcement officer from Mayo County Council was alerted to 22 and a half tonnes of litter strewn in Bonniconlon, which cost the county council €7,749 to clean up.

A Ballina man who overtook a lorry on a continuous white line which approaching a crossroads, and collided into the vehicle as the lorry turned right, was convicted and fined €150 at Ballina District Court this week for driving without reasonable consideration.

A 38-year-old married father of two, who is employed by Bus Éireann, was disqualified from driving for three years at Ballina District Court after he was detected drink driving in September 2008.

A 42-year-old, married, mother of three, who when driving her friend home after they had drunk a few glasses of wine, pulled out in front of a Garda car, was disqualified from driving for three years at Ballina District Court on Tuesday.

A 53-year-old man who while intoxicated refused to give his name to gardaí and told them that they would be “banished to Bonniconlon” faced a section eight public order charge, for failure to comply with gardaí, at Ballina District Court on Tuesday.

A woman driver who allowed young children to travel in the back of a commercial Ford Transit van with no restraint or place or proper seating, was convicted, fined, and disqualified from driving at Ballina District Court on Tuesday by Judge Mary Devins, who said this was a “fairly horrific incident” as “little people were left tossed around like skittles in the back of the van.”

A lorry driver who drove the wrong way on a one way system, instead of taking the diverted road out of Ballina, was disqualified from driving for one year and convicted and fined by Judge Mary Devins at Ballina District Court this week.

A part-time shop assistant from Foxford, who when arrested on suspicion of drink driving became agitated and uncooperative and lashed out at gardaí — where he tore the shirt of one garda — and failed to give a sample, was disqualified from driving for four years at Ballina District Court this week.

An unemployed father of two who was aggressive towards a female staff member at a Ballina takeaway was convicted of a public order offence at Ballina District Court on Tuesday.

A married teacher in her forties who failed a roadside breath test and then failed to provide a breath sample at Ballina Garda Station was disqualified from driving for four years and convicted and fined €800 at Ballina District Court on Tuesday.