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The actions of a man and a woman who attempted to attempted to rob American tourists, with one courageous tourist being assaulted, have been condemned by a district court judge as it had been terrifying for the visitors and sullies the reputation of Galway as a welcoming city.

A District Court judge this week praised the work of a Westport based garda who was surrounded by a mob who tried to stop him carrying out an arrest in the town. Garda Martin Kelly was attempting to carry out an arrest on Darren Heraty, Three Bridges, Islandeady, Castlebar, for a public order offence at Mill Street in Westport when a group of Heraty’s friends tried to stop Garda Kelly making the arrest. Garda Kelly was forced to call for back up from other officers who arrived at the scene to help their colleague.

Judge Conal Gibbons sentenced a Ballina man to a total of eight months in prison after convicting him of a number of offences. Derek Humber, 31 Trawley Terrace, Ballina, had appeared before Judge Gibbons the previous week where evidence was given in relation to two incidents which occurred earlier this year, one at Mayo General Hospital on February 20, and another at his home in Ballina on February 6 where he had to be arrested by gardaí for being threatening and abusive, and for being intoxicated in a public place and in possession of a broken bottle. He also faced a charge of failing to appear in court while on bail in Ballina on March 8, Humber pleaded guilty to all charges.

A 19-year-old man who was in court for two public order charges was told by the presiding judge, Judge Conal Gibbons that “he has no manners” and no “concept of how to behave in court or towards the gardaí.”

A man who acted in an aggressive manner towards staff at Mayo General Hospital, after his father asked that he be removed from visiting him in the ward, was before the holiday sitting of Castlebar District Court this week.

Judge Conal Gibbons, convicted and fined a youth who stole €100 from a nun in Ballina District Court this week. The previous week Judge Gibbons had remanded the youth in St Patrick’s Institution for a week, so he could hear from the probation service which had been working with the youth previously.

A Ballina woman was given the benefit of the probation act this week in Ballina District Court after pleading guilty to theft.

A 16-year-old youth from Tallaght, Co Dublin living with his extended family in the Castlebar area was remanded to St Patrick’s Institution this week by Judge Conal Gibbons after he pleaded guilty to theft from a 75-year-old nun in Castlebar.

A man in court on a shoplifting charge avoided a much larger sanction after a judge mis-read the value of the items taken by €700 and had to be corrected by a solicitor.

The appearance of four Myers brothers arrested for alleged involvement in feud-related criminal damage to a family home in Grange last weekend saw two of them remanded in custody from Athlone District Court this week (June 23) after the alleged victim gave evidence she was “a prisoner in my own house” and couldn’t take her disabled son to school or to the shop.