Search Results for 'Paul Connellan'

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 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).

A man who walked naked through a rural village was given a month in jail in the District Court this week (October 17), but will not do any additional time as the judge ruled this sentence run concurrently with the nine months he is currently serving.

A woman who pickpocketed an elderly man on his way into Mass was ordered to pay him €200 compensation in the District Court this week (March 14) or spend a month in prison.

A 27-year-old Athlone man who stole to feed his drug habit has now turned his attention to agriculture and would see his future working alongside horses, a sitting of Athlone District Court was told on Wednesday (February 15).

A man who broke into an Athlone beauty salon and stole 20 bottles of skin lotion, a pair of shoes, and a box of chocolates, had his sentencing postponed in the District Court this week (January 25) after the judge learned he had an outstanding suspended sentence in Galway.

A judge pleaded with the lawmakers of the State to “look carefully at comments the courts make”, and described the range of sentencing available as “totally skewed”, comparing the 12-month maximum sentence for theft with the maximum six months for drink driving.

After a 10-month wait the Department of Justice have finally formally replaced the venerable Judge John Neilan, when Judge Seamus Hughes took to the bench in Athlone District Court on Wednesday (March 9). He had already sat in Longford on Tuesday and completed his initiation in Court District No9 on Thursday when he introduced himself to Mullingar.

A former heroin addict with “a series of previous convictions” for burglary avoided a jail sentence in the District Court this week (February 16) after the judge heard how he was finishing up a foundation course in business studies and was hoping to attend the AIT next autumn.

An elderly man has ended up paying more that 30 times his original fine in expenses on account of the sense of threat he felt from the man for whom he did a good turn by allowing him to stay in an illegal mobile home on his lands, the Circuit Court learned this week (December 7).