Search Results for 'Ballinrobe District Court'

A 29-year-old who was arrested for drink driving after a night out with friends was fined and disqualified from driving at Ballinrobe District Court this week.

A man who dropped a €20 worth of cocaine in front of a garda was given the benefit of the probation act in Ballinrobe District Court this week following an adjournment in the sentencing of his case for a probation report.

A “dramatic” change in situation in the case of Edith Orumwenes, who claims to be the victim of human trafficking, was heard in Castlebar District Court on Wednesday, after a Garda investigation may have identified her as a woman who was working under the professional name of “Joy Jolly” in Clonmel during the time she claims that she was held captive in a house in Castlebar.

A county councillor in south Mayo has called on the court service to visit the Ballinrobe court house and point out the reasons why the court sittings have been ‘temporarily’ moved to Castlebar.

A Galway man was convicted and fined €300 and ordered to hand over €500 compensation for passing two cheques that bounced at Ballinrobe District Court. Mark Keane pleaded guilty to the charges in court, in a case which his solicitor Cathy McDarby said had “no malice in it”.

A Dublin heroin addict who is currently serving an 18-month sentence in the midlands prison was given a three-month sentence to run concurrently at Ballinrobe District Court last week.

A Galway man was convicted and fined €300 and ordered to hand over €500 compensation for passing two cheques that bounced at Ballinrobe District Court. Mark Keane pleaded guilty to the charges in court, in a case which his solicitor Cathy McDarby said had “no malice in it”.

A Claremorris man was fined €600 and given the benefit of the probation act in Ballinrobe District Court last week after he pleaded guilty to acting as an illegal taxi driver. The court heard that John McHugh, Caltragh, Claremorris, picked up two women on the night of August 30 2008 at a pub in Hollymount and dropped them off at another pub in Ballyglass. When the women realised the next day that McHugh was not a legal taxi they made a complaint to the gardaí. When they spoke to McHugh he admitted to the charge.

A 26-year-old Polish man who lead the gardaí on a 160km chase through the south Mayo countryside and switched his lights off on a side road as he tried to evade the gardaí was fined a total of €1,000 and banned from driving for six years in Ballinrobe District Court last week.

A Ballinrobe man who failed to appear in court was given a two month sentence in Ballinrobe District Court for what Judge John Kilrean described as a very serious incident.