Search Results for 'Tony McLynn'

A judge took a leaf from his predecessor’s book on sentencing addicts when he jailed a serial thief for 17 months this week (November 21).

A teenage girl who demanded she be sent to prison but declined any psychiatric intervention, received the best of both in the District Court this week (November 14).

A man has appeared before Athlone District Court this week (November 7) charged with rape, aggravated sexual assault of a young man and production of a knife during a rape.

Three friends who had broken into a house to go drinking were each given a suspended sentence and ordered not to associate with each other in the future after the judge warned they were “all skating on very thin ice”.

Causing damage to a car belonging to a District Court judge has landed a 29-year-old Athlone man with a six-month prison sentence.

A mother who brought her daughter and daughter-in-law on a shoplifting spree in Athlone for Christmas was jailed for three months by an exasperated judge after a Garda inspector confirmed there had been “a substantial increase in this type of offence recently”.

A man who was refused breakfast and asked to leave a B&B where he was alleged to have caused a disturbance the night previously, had his drink driving charge dismissed in the District Court in Athlone this week (July 13) after the arresting garda neglected to give evidence he had notified the suspect of a required part of the arrest procedure.

Three sisters, who battered a “slight” girl in an unprovoked but feud-related assault in a nightclub which saw in the victim requiring €800 worth of hair replacement treatments, were all jailed for between two and nine months.

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 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).