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A file has been sent to the Director of Public Prosecutions after a man was questioned following a heroin seizure in Moate on Tuesday.

A man remains in intensive care in hospital following a house fire in Battery Heights on Wednesday this week.

A couple charged with separate offences arising from the same incident received two very different sentences in the District Court this week (January 30).

Drugs with an estimated street value of €25,000 have been seized by Athlone Gardai and three people arrested this week, following a series of planned searches in the town.

“Normally people on their third conviction for no insurance go to jail,” Judge Tim Lucey warned an Athlone woman at Mullingar District Court last week.

Gardai in Athlone are warning members of the public to be vigilant following a surge of car break-ins in Athlone and surrounding areas.

The Athlone Garda Community Policing Unit has joined forces with local residents to undertake a major clean-up of the Woodlands and Ashdale areas next Saturday April 18, as part of An Taisce’s National Spring Clean campaign.

Two men have been sentenced to four years imprisonment for their part in a robbery where a betting-office owner had a blood-filled syringe held to his throat.

One of Athlone’s most prolific burglars, jailed for two years on January 30, had his sentence reduced this week (May 19) to eight months with the last two suspended after a judge accepted his efforts at rehabilitation were genuine.

A man who drove just 350m from the pub to his house managed to avoid a driving ban in the District Court this week (July 13) when he convinced a judge he had not been arrested in a public place, despite testing at nearly twice the legal limit for alcohol.