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At Kilkenny District Court on Tuesday, Bernard McNamara of Hugginstown trading as BMN Tyre Services pleaded guilty to an offence under the Waste Management (tyres and waste tyres) Regulations 2007 in relation to the holding, storage and disposal of waste tyres.

A former heroin addict with “a series of previous convictions” for burglary avoided a jail sentence in the District Court this week (February 16) after the judge heard how he was finishing up a foundation course in business studies and was hoping to attend the AIT next autumn.

A man who pleaded guilty to striking two teenagers for throwing stones at his house avoided a conviction for assault in the District Court this week (January 19) after the judge agreed with the defendant’s solicitor that there were racial overtones in the actions of the boys.

A man who put in a window in the house where his 11-week-old child was, and who threatened to kill a man in Custume Place, was remanded to appear in the Circuit Court in Portlaoise yesterday (December 16) after it was revealed both these offences had been committed whilst he was still under a suspended sentence.

A man whose family was evicted from local authority housing last month after a campaign of anti-social behaviour in their estate, was convicted in the District Court this week (November 17) of an assault on a female former neighbour and fined €200.

A litter charge brought against a Ballina man was dismissed this week after CCTV footage only identified the registered owner of a car seen in the vicinity, but the actual identification of the litterer was not proven beyond reasonable doubt.

A local haulier convicted of driving without insurance whilst serving a three year ban for a similar conviction, was jailed for four months and disqualified from driving for 10 years in the District Court this week (October 27), but walked from court after lodging an immediate appeal.

Three women who pleaded guilty this week to running a brothel, avoided jail and even got a lift home from the Gardai, after a judge felt that having to go onto a sex offenders register on foot of conviction was too severe a consequence for the crime before him.

A judge in the District Court this week (September 22) put a cost on being drunk and disorderly in public after a man pleaded guilty to two public order offences in Moate.

One of the principal participants in the ongoing Willow Park feud with only nine days to serve on a prison sentence, received an additional eight months this week (September 1) after he finally pleaded guilty to an iron bar assault on one of his opponents.