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A man who was so drunk behind the wheel of a car that gardai had to break a window to get into the vehicle to wake him, avoided a driving ban in the District Court this week (July 13) after one of the arresting members took down the wrong registration and gave it in evidence in court.

A sheep and cattle farmer, who dug up 300 metres of the Srahnalong river bed, which runs through his land, was before Ballinrobe District Court sitting in Castlebar last week, as the farmer carried out these works during a protected spawning season.

A letter from the National Education Welfare Board which was found among illegally dumped litter, led to the conviction of a father of six from Ballina.

A general operative with Mayo County Council who hit a parked van after coming from the pub where he had a few drinks on his way home from work, was disqualified from driving for three years at Bemullet District Court this week.

A man arrested after a high speed chase up the M6 motorway on Wednesday (September 16) after an alleged armed robbery of a sub-post office in Irishtown, Athlone was remanded in custody yesterday (September 17) after Gardai opposed bail.

At Castlebar District Court this week a 25-year-old father of one was convicted of drink driving after he left a poker game to rush to his pregnant girlfriend’s assistance.

The man who allegedly stole €50,000 with a toy gun from a cash in transit employee making a delivery to an Athlone sub-post office last week was remanded in custody for another four weeks after he was unable to stump up €12,000 for bail.

A 29-year-old man with 84 previous convictions, including a disqualification from driving, was sentenced at Ballinrobe District Court sitting in Castlebar last week for driving a van with a false registration plate.

A drunk driver who had to be left in a cell for nearly two hours because there were no other gardai to attend a burglary call apart from the ones who had just arrested him, had the charge dismissed in the District Court this week (October 5) after this detention was deemed unlawful.

A man who refused to pay a taxi fare and then held a shotgun to the neck of the taxi driver and threatened to kill him, after the driver went to his house to look for the fare, was before Castlebar District Court on Wednesday.