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A judge held up the immediate payment of legal aid to three unemployed men charged separately with dealing heroin in the District Court this week (March 23), after each of them was found with a value of heroin greater than their weekly dole payment.

Though the provision of new, local authority housing in Athlone will be halved this year, this will still allow the town council to complete the clearance of St Mel’s Terrace and commence the long delayed €17m Loughanaskin project in 2011, it was revealed at the annual budget meeting held this week.

A man with 63 previous convictions who fought with a garda after being apprehended for joyriding around the Marist College in July, avoided any addition to his present sentence after the court heard how he had just started the Leaving Cert in prison.

The man arrested last Sunday for allegedly stabbing his brother and threatening the ambulance staff who came for him, was jailed for two months for an outstanding and unrelated public order offence in the District Court this week (April 21).

Sinn Fein councillor Paul Hogan has commended the residents of Sarsfield Square after a massive clean-up of the estate over the weekend. He has said that he is “delighted to play an initial role in securing skips for the clean-up”.

A heroin addicted father of two who stole a camera from a woman during Sunday service in a church was given 22 months in jail for this and one other sample burglary conviction at the District Court this week (February 18).

A woman summonsed for allowing a child jump around the back of her car whilst she was driving was given the Probation Act in the District Court this week (April 1), after the judge heard how the child was deaf and had since been diagnosed with autism.

A man who assaulted two gardai whilst on a suspended sentence was remanded in custody until July 13 at the District Court this week (May 27) to appear at the Circuit Court in Tullamore before the judge who initially handed down the suspended sentence.