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A student arrested for fighting in the street in the early hours of last Sunday (July 25), but who claimed in court he was the victim, had his sentence adjourned until October for a probation report after gardai revealed none of his alleged assailants were before the court.

A man, alleged to have broken into a couple’s house in Mullingar in the small hours of last Sunday and stealing €90 whilst on bail from the High Court, was given a very restrictive release this week (July 7) after the judge said “his history...doesn’t suggest a pattern of re-offending”.

A man in court on a shoplifting charge avoided a much larger sanction after a judge mis-read the value of the items taken by €700 and had to be corrected by a solicitor.

A woman involved in the alleged pickpocketing of a man had her case put back for a month in the District Court this week (June 16) to allow her solicitor retrieve and view the appropriate CCTV footage.

A judge frustrated with the level of inaction shown by the HSE in dealing with a case of a Romanian woman who used two of her children to beg in Athlone suggested the Government should close its childrens’ section as a mark of protest.

A student pleading not guilty to a drink driving charge at a special sitting of the District Court this week (March 29) failed to have it struck out after a judge accepted a garda was capable of searching the prisoner as well as maintaining the mandatory period of observation.

A pensioner, followed home from the pub by gardai after visiting his wife in a nursing home, avoided a conviction in the District Court this week (March 29) for drink driving after the judge ruled there was “sufficient conflict” of evidence.

A 25-year-old manager of Mocha Beans, Ballina, contested a dangerous driving charge, following a road traffic accident, at Ballina District Court on Tuesday.

A mother of 10 was given a three month suspended sentence, fined €1,000, and banned from the roads for four years for causing a car crash whilst uninsured that hospitalised three people.

A car salesman who accused two gardai of “telling lies”, was banned from the roads for a year in Athlone District Court this week (February 1) after being convicted of drink driving .