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A Catholic priest living in Indiana is facing possible extradition to Ireland on charges of child sex abuse, including the rape of a child after the funeral of the child’s father in Galway more than 40 years ago.

A Galway man who tried to make a €200 profit at a post office by handing in a doctored social welfare slip, and who stole a bunch of flowers on Valentine’s Day, was sentenced to a total of five months this week.

A Galway man who sneaked into the bedroom of a childhood friend and sexually assualted her has been certified as a sex offender and remanded on continuing bail to await sentencing.

A case for PULSE being installed in probation offices was indirectly made in the District Court this week (November 11) after a judge made the extraordinarily rare move of criticising a probation officer for submitting an incomplete report on a defendant.

The two men accused of attempting to rob a post office in Connemara last week have been refused bail.

A Shell to Sea campaigner gave a sworn undertaking at Ballina District Court this week that he would not partake in any protests in relation to Shell to Sea until after September 2010, when a suspended sentence which was imposed on the Glenamoy man last year would expire.

A 46-year-old father of two has been handed a 10-year sentence in the Central Criminal Court for the manslaughter of a young Glenamaddy man last year.

A homeless man who had been found with two stolen laptops containing sensitive information from a doctor’s surgery was jailed for 10 months at Galway District Court this week.

A man caught in possession of €7,000 worth of heroin a year and a half ago, was finally jailed for 22 months in the District Court this week (December 16) after 12 court appearances and “seven chances”.

A man charged with dangerous driving causing the death of a woman at Oranmore was refused bail when he was brought before Galway District Court on Monday.