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“He’s only playing games with the Court,” was the response from a Judge at Galway District Court when a young father appeared before him pleading that he didn’t have the money to pay fines and asking to do community service instead.

A young man arrested for begging on a Galway street wants to return home to Romania as his short time in this country has proved very difficult for him.

A horse trader will be on shank’s mare for ten years or more after he was banned from driving once again for a decade by Judge John King at Galway District Court. The defendant was caught driving again after he was put off the road for ten years in 2021.

A woman who was knocked to the ground by an Alsatian dog and suffered a broken leg as a result said in her victim-impact statement that the owner of the dog had never apologised to her and this “grieved her”. She said that because of his attitude she was allowing his prosecution to go ahead.

A man who threatened to kill a Garda and who hurled threats and vile language at the Gardaí trying to deal with him was sentenced to six months’ imprisonment when he appeared before Judge James Faughnan at Tuam District Court.

A woman who allegedly spat in the face of a Garda, was found drunk rambling on a dual carriageway, and who locked herself in an ambulance and refused to open the doors, among other offences, pleaded at Galway District Court that she wanted to be sent back to Mayo. All the charges before the Court related to a one week period in July last.

“It seems a lot of rubber grew overnight” was the response of a prosecuting Garda Sgt when a defendant produced a document from a tyre centre indicating that the front tyre which a Garda registered as bald the day before, met the required legal standard the next day.

A woman who pretended she was calling her insurance company when stopped by Gardaí narrowly avoided a prison sentence for repeatedly driving without being insured.

A MAN who, it is alleged, equipped himself with a large lump hammer and other tools to smash the locks of e-scooters over a weekend claimed he was looking for his son’s e-scooter when he was brought before Galway District Court.

A WOMAN knocked to the ground by an Alsatian had to be rushed to Portiuncula Hospital to be treated for a broken leg sustained during the attack.