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A man who kicked and smashed the rear window of a taxi in an attack with a “serious racist undertone” was fined €450 and ordered to pay further compensation.

A homeless man who was found intoxicated and carrying a knife on the busy promenade in Salthill received seven months detention when he appeared at Galway District Court.

A burglar who was found drunk and asleep in a house by an eagle-eyed detective who spotted a ladder leading up to the window had to be placed on a stretcher and lowered down by the fire brigade, the Galway District Court heard this week.

A district court judge has warned an out-of-control teenager that any more “outrageous” behaviour could result in jail.

A repeat offender who committed a number of burglaries and threatened to damage property when confronted by a resident received a 14 month jail sentence at Galway District Court this week.

A Galway man charged with the serious assault of a man in the city centre last week has been refused bail and further remanded in custody.

While most people prefer to stay out of a patrol car one 25-year-old man was so in need of a lift during Christmas celebrations that he drunkenly asked gardai for a lift, and when that was refused he grabbed the car handles to try to get in, the Galway District Court heard this week.

A Renmore man who received a suspended sentence this week for burglary has been warned to behave in future and not to use his personal problems as an excuse to commit crime.

A 26-year-old Galway man received a nine month suspended sentence and was disqualified from driving for two years for offences which included assaulting three gardai and stealing a number of vehicles throughout the city almost 10 years ago.

A man with health and psychiatric difficulties went on a drunken wine bottle thieving spree through the village of Oughterard while let out on bail to attend medical appointments, the Galway District Court heard this week.