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A Ballina man who drove his friend’s car without the owner’s permission, when drunk, and was involved in a traffic accident was fined a total of €1,300 and banned from driving for three years at Ballina District Court this week.

The book of evidence was served on John Vincent Sweeney, 15 Circular Road, Ballina, before Ballina District Court sitting on Tuesday, with the defendant now sent forward for trial to Castlebar Circuit Court sitting on April 21, for an unlawful killing and criminal damage charge.

An intoxicated Ballina man who told a garda to summons his rear end, and also threatened to headbutt the Garda, pleaded guilty before Ballina District Court this week.

Maura Harrington, Doohoma, faced two charges of dangerous driving at Ballina District Court on Tuesday after she was observed driving erratically — while she pursued a white transit van carrying 16 IRMS security workers who are employed on Shell’s Glengad site — through the townlands of Annaghmore and Ballinglen, Ballycastle.

A Ballina man with 39 previous convictions appeared before Ballina District Court this week on foot of public order charges after an incident occurred after he was observed urinating in a laneway.

Two men who abandoned their vans in the middle of morning traffic in Ballina while they wrestled with each other on the ground appeared before Ballina District Court on Tuesday.

A case involving a man in his 40s who was before Ballina District Court this week, for drink driving and dangerous driving charges, was contested for three hours before the Iarnród Éireann employee was convicted of both charges.

A 45-year-old mother of two, who has been using cannabis for more than 30 years and was described by Judge Mary Devins as being a “mature Vicky Pollard”, was sentenced to jail for the unlawful possession of €1,699 worth of cannabis for the purpose of selling or supplying the drug to others.

Garda Robert McCallion, a 29-year-old native of Swinford who lost his battle for life at Beaumont Hospital Dublin on Tuesday, has been described as a “hero”.

A 29-year-old man from Westport who stole a car — which was unlocked and had the keys in the ignition — crashed into a garda car, left the scene and when apprehended refused to provide a sample, was before Ballina District Court this week.