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Judge Mary Devins asked a man who pleaded guilty to drink driving for the third time why she should not send him to prison. She also said that if people are to take the law seriously it’s up to the judiciary to impose sentencing, “as fines and disqualifications didn’t teach you a lesson before”.

A Claremorris man who was caught drink driving after a three week drinking session as he tried to cope with the loss of his business, was banned from driving for two years at Claremorris District Court this week. Edward Killeen of Kilbeg, Claremorris, pleaded guilty to the charge in court.

A Lithuanian man who said he just wanted to go home was this week asked by Judge Mary Devins in Claremorris District Court, “You want to go home like ET?” Ricardis Belickes, 38 Ashling Drive, Ballyhaunis, replied “No, I want to go home to Ballyhaunis.”

Judge Mary Devins commented that bringing a Section Four Public Order Act charge (being intoxicated in a public place) was meaningless as she was only able to impose a €120 fine, as she convicted a man whom she said needed help with his alcohol addictions.

Two brothers and their cousin have appeared in court charged in connection with a Garda investigation into two assaults in Ballinrobe during which one man received serious head injuries and is being treated in Beaumont Hospital and two others were stabbed in the neck.