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A small-time drug dealer who had been arrested during Operation Scarf, a surveillance operation carried out last year by members of the National Drugs Unit, had the last nine months of a 21 month sentence suspended at Galway Circuit Appeals Court last Tuesday.

A 13-year-old boy who was found in possession of a knife has been sent to an education and re-integration youth centre after he broke the conditions of his bail, the Galway District Court heard last week.

A man who was found guilty of a robbery at Ashgrove Stores in Carlow in July 2006 was given a suspended sentence of six years at this month’s sitting of Carlow Circuit Court.

A recovering addict who had been caught in a car park next to Galway Garda Station with tin foil containing heroin on her lap was given a chance to co-operate with the probation services and remanded on continuing bail.

A man received a two-month suspended sentence for the possession of a knife at Castlecomer District Court on Monday.

A 16-year-old teenager appeared before Kilkenny District Court this week charged with committing a number of criminal damage, burglary and theft offences on the same night last May.

A twenty-five year-old man who stole €800 in cash from a private home in Mullinavat, Co Kilkenny was handed a four month suspended sentence at Kilkenny Court this week.

“It’s far too early to bring the shutters down,” said a Circuit Court Judge before adjourning a case involving the attempted rape of a mother by her son.

A young woman was this week banned from driving for six years for driving without insurance.

A woman described in court as “a career criminal”, who was jailed for nearly two years earlier this month for stealing a tea trolley from a train, got half a chance in her Circuit Court appeal this week (February 24) when she said she wanted to finish her Junior Cert and get a job.