Search Results for 'Padraig Quinn'

A man who started with “the best of intentions” but succumbed to temptation “on a silly, spur of the moment decision”, was given the benefit of the Probation Act in court this week (September 22).

A judge sentenced a woman who stole a Valentine’s Day teddy bear, amongst other goods, in a €1,400 crime spree to four months in prison, despite believing she wouldn’t spend more than a week in jail.

A man and a woman charged with an assault using teeth and a wheel brace will have to attend their next court dates separately when it was revealed he has a suspended sentence to be dealt with in the Circuit Court first.

A 14-year-old Athlone boy from “a very difficult background” who was due to return to school yesterday (September 2) was remanded to the custody of a secure unit in Co Dublin this week, after the Welfare and Probation Service (WPS) refused to support his bail application.

A Sligo judge had to remind a solicitor of the extent of inter-Connacht rivalries after the FAI-affiliated lawyer unknowingly extolled the virtues of his Roscommon u21-playing client in a drunk and disorderly case in court this week (September 1).

A man whose appeal against a two year ban and a €200 fine for driving without insurance required a solicitor, a barrister, a translator, and a garda to turn up in court, had his legal team resign and had a six month jail sentence handed down after it was revealed he could understand English and had given misleading information to his defence.

A judge had such little faith in the prison system’s ability to keep an addict in jail that he refused to convict her despite six guilty pleas of theft committed whilst at large from a previous prison sentnece.

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 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 man who left babysitting duties to get involved in an altercation at a First Communion party was fined €250 in the District Court this week (June 16).