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Two men who were charged after a concrete block was thrown through a house door because a witness declared in a statement he was “100 per cent” sure it was them, both walked free from court this week (June 1) after the witness became “reluctant” and contradicted his statement in the witness box.

A man who U-turned at a checkpoint but turned down a cul-de-sac in the attempted getaway, then kicked a garda when being restrained and refused to give his details or a sample in the station, before urinating in his cell, was sentenced to five months in prison and fined €2,500 in the District Court in Athlone this week (May 25).

A garda was congratulated by both the judge and his inspector for his “professionalism and diligence” when the four-man burglary gang he apprehended on a roadside, in the early hours, on his own, was jailed for between four and seven months apiece in the District Court this week (May 27).

Mullingar District Court’s judge has described traffic management in the town as chaos.

The Life Festival at Belvedere Gardens has been granted its licence despite concerns that it is being transferred from outside the area.

A woman with 133 previous convictions, 83 of which are for theft, has added a further four convictions to her list at Mullingar District Court recently.

A man who drove while disqualified and so voided his insurance has been jailed for a week while Judge Seamus Hughes considers sentence.

“He needs to be brought to his senses and removed from his influences,” Judge Seamus Hughes said as he jailed a Mullingar man for four months for threatening behaviour.

“Let the message go out, I’ll keep a tight rein on you,” was Judge Seamus Hughes’ message to members of the Traveller community in Mullingar who fail to send their children to school.

A man arrested for drink driving whilst still serving a previous 15-year ban was jailed for six months and fined €2,500 in the District Court this week (May 11).