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A trial is underway at Galway Circuit Criminal Court after a 41-year-old Dublin man pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting three sisters while holidaying on an island in Connemara during a two year period.

A 25-year-old Craughwell man pleaded guilty this week to robbing three people of their cash in a city centre street.

A 37-year-old Galway man has admitted sexually assaulting a young boy for more than two years at a house on the west of the city and will now face a sentencing hearing in early December.

The trial of a priest charged with sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy on two separate occasions in the west of Ireland more than 40 years ago has been deferred.

A man who indecently assaulted and raped a 10-year-old boy in Galway city 35 years ago while he was a Redemptorist student priest has been sentenced to five years in prison, with the final two and half years suspended.

A Connemara fisherman charged with stabbing a man during a drunken scuffle over two years ago was warned by a circuit court judge to stop “codding the court” and to take his alcohol difficulties seriously in order to avoid a jail sentence.

A young third level student and part-time barman who had everything to live for had his life turned upside down after being left for dead in a laneway following a savage attack almost nine years ago leaving him with permanent facial paralysis.

A 69-year-old city man has received a suspended sentence after pleading guilty to attempting to extort €5,000 from Cllr Michael Fahy by claiming he had information that would clear the Ardrahan councillor of fraud charges.

Two men have both pleaded guilty to the charge of conspiring to commit a robbery at a post office in Connemara last November.

A Clare man who was highly abusive and insulting to gardai and hospital staff and had to be held down to be treated in A&E was described in court as a “nuisance and a menace”.