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A man who claimed his requirement for heart surgery was the reason behind his being charged with the neglect of a number of horses, was still fined €1,100 in the District Court this week (September 26).

A judge alluded to the Travelling community as “Neanderthal men” in a case of neighbour intimidation heard in the District Court this week (September 5).

A man arrested in Mullingar on Monday evening was charged in Athlone on Wednesday (January 11) with the cultivation of a “sophisticated” cannabis factory set up in Ardleigh Park.

A teenage offender - described by one Garda source as “Athlone’s most troublesome burglar” - had a jail sentence extended by three months on request in the District Court this week (October 12) so that he might be able to sit his Junior Cert.

A man without a real job, but who felt he could tell gardaí to “get a real job”, avoided jail in the District Court this week (September 21) for possession of a knife and the theft of some foodstuffs, after he was ordered to do 240 hours community service in lieu of a prison sentence.

A Belmullet man was sentenced to six months in prison at Castlebar District Court this week for the possession of drugs and for threatening and abusive behaviour.

A judge declared there was “too much mollycoddling in this State” in the case of a 15-year-old serial burglar this week (July 1), after his solicitor suggested one of the causes of his client’s recidivism was that the HSE was deficient in its treatment of his attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

A man who got his teenage nephew to hold over €1,200 worth of heroin during a Garda raid, will have to wait until July 27 to find out when he must appear in the Circuit Court, after a District Court judge refused jurisdiction in the case this week (June 8).

Two men who were charged after a concrete block was thrown through a house door because a witness declared in a statement he was “100 per cent” sure it was them, both walked free from court this week (June 1) after the witness became “reluctant” and contradicted his statement in the witness box.

A teenage boy who assaulted a teenage girl both violently and indecently whilst engaged in illicit drinking in a schoolyard in a Midlands town was remanded on continuing bail until November after both social workers and the HSE gave evidence the boy has made “remarkable improvement” since his release from St Patrick’s Institution just after Christmas.