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A man, believed to have now fled the country, was sentenced to two years for a theft at a local school after fooling unsuspecting staff into believing that he was enrolling his child.

A single mother who had been sentenced to five months in jail for assaulting a woman just because she was not satisfied with curtain alterations succeeded in having the sentence suspended at the Galway Circuit Appeals Court last Tuesday.

A date has been set for the trial of a Dublin man charged in connection with an armed raid on a businessman’s home in Lackagh which took place earlier this year.

A 25-year-old woman was jailed yesterday for two years for what was described as her “willing participation” in an organised ATM skimming operation.

A man stabbed in the back with a pair of scissors, and then set upon by a group of youths as he lay defenceless on the ground, could have ended up in a wheelchair if the stab wound was just 1cm lower, the Galway Circuit Criminal Court heard yesterday.

A man was left fighting for his life after being violently stabbed four times, the Galway Circuit Court heard this week.

A 42-year-old man who held his “community up for ransom” by firing up to 48 shotgun rounds during a 21-hour seige in Gort has been sentenced to a total of five years in jail with the final year suspended.

A man who pursued his housemate with a six inch long kitchen knife was sentenced to three years with the final year suspended at the Galway Circuit Criminal Court last week.

Three Dublin men, arrested and charged following a foiled armed raid on a businessman’s home in Lackagh last February, pleaded guilty yesterday to offences which included false imprisonment and possession of firearms with criminal intent.

Two men who had been found in possession of a pipe bomb, a discovery which led to the evacuation of Galway Garda station earlier this year, pleaded guilty yesterday and will now face sentencing.