Search Results for 'Nicholas Farrell'

A woman who had fallen on hard times, while her husband had been serving a term of imprisonment, appeared before Athlone District Court on Wednesday october 5

A man, who failed to sign on at Athlone Garda Station as part of his bail conditions, appeared before Athlone District Court on Wednesday.

A woman due to give birth within three weeks who was convicted this week (September 21) for possession of a knife was given the chance to start her family and had sentencing adjourned until next June.

A man without a real job, but who felt he could tell gardaí to “get a real job”, avoided jail in the District Court this week (September 21) for possession of a knife and the theft of some foodstuffs, after he was ordered to do 240 hours community service in lieu of a prison sentence.

A Westport man with seven previous convictions for driving without insurance, caught driving his wife’s car whilst on a 15-year driving ban, avoided a jail sentence from the District Court in Athlone, after Judge Seamus Hughes continued in his practice of offering community service where appropriate.

Three sisters, who battered a “slight” girl in an unprovoked but feud-related assault in a nightclub which saw in the victim requiring €800 worth of hair replacement treatments, were all jailed for between two and nine months.

The man whose conviction for farmyard theft in March led to a judge praising the Mayo farmer who shot dead a Traveller trespasser, avoided jail in the District Court this week (June 22) after his father promised the defendant would deliver a “lorryload of turf” to St Vincent de Paul as a community service alternative.

A youth who claimed six honours in his Junior Cert in response to a judge’s suggestion that his schooling “was very limited” after he’d heard how the defendant had threatened to kill his father with a cheese knife, was ordered to produce this certificate in court next week.

A man arrested for drink driving whilst still serving a previous 15-year ban was jailed for six months and fined €2,500 in the District Court this week (May 11).

An Athlone man who threatened to burn down the home of a shopkeeper, and also that of a garda; and who threw a TV, table, and toilet seat at other gardaí, was remanded on continuing bail in Sligo Circuit Court on Tuesday (April 5) to re-appear before Judge Anthony Kennedy in Athlone Circuit Court on July 26.