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A Ballymahon motorist who acted “as a good Samaritan” and drove an intoxicated friend home was fined €250, when he pleaded guilty to a drink driving offence at Mullingar Court last week.

A Kildare man facing charges of dangerous driving has been ordered to stay out of Westmeath.

One of the region’s best-known businessmen, Noel O’Gara from Ballinahown, was in the District Court in Athlone again this week (November 18) to face a number of charges relating to his alleged audit of a company or companies whilst disqualified from doing so.

Noel O’Gara, the businessman and ground rent speculator from Ballinahown, will get a “priority hearing” on January 16 when he next appears to answer the nine breaches of corporate law with which he is charged.

The new District Court judge flexed some early muscles in court last Wednesday (January 7) when he jailed a man for seven days for continuing to talk in court after being warned not to.

A Galway man may have his four year suspended sentence for possession of a shotgun reactivated at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after he pleaded guilty to possession of a flick-knife in Athlone.

Two Moate teenagers who went on a late night rampage around Moate Golf Club in a golf buggy had their cases adjourned until May to allow them raise the required compensation.

The application of justice was postponed for a time in Athlone District Court this week (February 11) when the judge got vexed with the Garda Inspector over the non-production of evidence in a case where a guilty plea was already made.

One of the men charged with violent disorder arising out of the Dalton Park riot was escorted shouting from a courtroom and had his bail revoked.

A garda who was allegedly kicked in the chest by a martial arts expert in the early hours of last Sunday (March 1) in the middle of Moate recovered to make an arrest and restrain the man.