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A Galway teenager who had been found driving a car which had been stolen in a burglary was given 10 months’ detention and a four year disqualification after using up all of his chances.

A self-confessed chronic alcoholic with a rather expensive taste for perfume received a three month sentence at Galway District Court this week.

A Ballybane man who stole €23,000 from the glove box of a local businessman’s car and attempted to steal the cash box from a city centre dental clinic has been jailed for six months.

Trusting and respecting your taxi driver is a lesson that was hard learnt by a Ballinrobe man who received a suspended sentence this week for “totally unacceptable” public order offences.

A man who fell off his scooter while nearly three times over the legal limit was fined €700 and disqualified for three years at Galway District Court this week.

A 39-year-old Galway man who assaulted a bus driver by lunging at her, attempting to take the keys out of the ignition and turn the vehicle, has been sentenced to eight months in jail.

A seven month sentence was imposed on a woman who used a tin-foil lined bag to rob €630 worth of perfume from a city centre, however, it is now uncertain how much of that sentence she will actually serve after it was revealed that she had served only two days of a sentence imposed last May for shop lifting.

Trusting and respecting your taxi driver is a lesson that was hard learnt by a Ballinrobe man who received a suspended sentence this week for “totally unacceptable” public order offences.

A 27-year-old man appeared in court yesterday charged with the murder of Claregalway man Kieran Cunningham eight weeks ago.

A Lithuanian has been jailed for six years for the oral rape of a German woman in Galway city almost four years ago.