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The vexed question of bar extensions for debs dances came to the fore this week (April 3) when a judge used a point of law to postpone the granting of such an extension to allow the hotel explain the situation.

A businesswoman and her husband fined a total of €2,520 for paying a staff member 45c an hour below the minimum wage were told this week (March 3) the prosecution would be “reviewed” if they could provide the court with a letter from their former accountant accepting her error as asserted.

by Finian Coghlan

A mother of two Down Syndrome children who pleaded guilty to the theft of €12 worth of clothes from a store had her charges struck out in the District Court this week (March 13) when the judge declared: “This is a scandalous waste of money...this case should never have been brought”.

A man convicted of theft from the cars of five TriAthlone competitors nearly four years ago who was subsequently jailed for six months, walked free from the Circuit Court this week (March 5) after a judge decreed he should be treated like his co-accused.

A Romanian teenager who gave a false name but his correct address after being caught driving a car without insurance was told “he can tell that to Borat or whoever” in the District Court this week (February 27).

The driver of the speedboat that crashed into the White Bridge in July where a passenger was seriously injured, was remanded on continuing bail in the District Court this week (February 27) to re-appear on April 24 for a book of evidence.

A judge did as much he could to lessen the social effects of the publicity involved in the assault of a teacher on his principal in 2011 by giving him the benefit of the Probation Act in the District Court this week (February 20).

A schoolteacher who threw his principal to the ground by her hair in a row over an afterschool homework club, avoided a jail sentence in the District Court in Athlone yesterday (February 13) after the victim accepted an ex gratia payment of €2,000.

A man who was arrested on three consecutive days last week, and who threatened a garda inspector with death, was escorted by three gardaí to another fortnight’s custody from the District Court this week (January 16).