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Staff at a care home were left terrorised and locked in their office while a teenager smashed up everything in sight and threatened to break their legs. The Galway District Court also heard this week that nurses, security, and gardai at a busy hospital were spat at and kicked.

A man, with 67 previous convictions and described as a “nuisance”, was fined this week for stealing aftershave and sweaters from city centre shops and then having a drink in a local pub and walking out without paying for it.

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.

A single mother who comitted a number of public order offences and has a “history of non-appearance” was refused bail this week and warned to deal with her alcoholic difficulties.

Two men involved in the “mean” and “sinister” theft from a number of cars during the Triathlone last July will have to come up with €2,000 each in compensation before next March 3 to avoid a jail sentence.

A second attempt at bail by one of the most prolific burglars in Athlone failed again this week (October 14), when the judge heard how, on two recent attempts to arrest him, he absconded out of back windows, before he was finally apprehended last week.

A man who helped himself to scrap metal at the Docks was fined €300 at Galway District Court this week.