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A newly graduated Mayo garda was awarded with the Commissioner’s Medal at the graduation ceremony in the Garda College, Templemore yesterday (Thursday).

The Athlone Institute of Technology Students Union has condemned sensational reports which appeared in the national media this week in the wake of the assault of a second year student on Monday night.

Gardai in Athlone have confirmed that no evidence pertaining to the attacks on women in Athlone has gone missing, contrary to reports that appeared in the national media this week.

The reported sighting of a man matching the description of the Athlone attacker in a Dublin train station is one of many possible sightings that have been reported, according to Athlone Gardai.

A Tubberclair man who was summonsed by mistake had the rare privilege of seeing the prosecution hold its hands up in court last Tuesday and admit “it was an error by the State”.

A Glasson man beat a drink driving rap when his solicitor pointed out the arresting garda’s verbal evidence in court didn’t match his written statement.

Local gardai have made two arrests this week in relation to commercial robberies committed around the town in the last fortnight.

Another man who failed an intoxiliser test got to walk from the court this week (November 24) with his licence intact after the arresting garda got the car registration wrong, the townland wrong, and failed to sign the receipts issued by the intoxilising machine.

Gardai in Athlone are advising business owners not to keep large amounts of cash on their premises, following the kidnap and assault of a Moate bookmaker and his family last weekend.

A young man with some learning difficulties and known to the system, who shouted in court that he’d stab a garda, then punched one and spat in the face of another, was released on a multi-conditional bail from the District Court last week (December 16).