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“You are making a promise on oath, and breaching this promise will have very serious consequences,” a judge warned a defendant who has come before her repeatedly for being drunk and a danger to himself and the public around the streets of Galway.

On a scale of one to ten, how bad was the public order offence before him, a Judge asked the prosecuting Garda when the case came before him at Balinasloe District Court.

Car thefts increased by 58 per cent in Galway during the first half of 2025, according to CSO figures published this week, bucking the national trend which saw incidents of this crime fall in the six months to the end of June.

A man who it is alleged was in possession of an offensive weapon during an altercation in a city Chinese restaurant was granted bail, despite strenuous objections from Gardaí when he appeared before Galway District Court.

With 752 recorded incidents of shoplifting in the Galway division, Ireland South MEP Cynthia Ní Mhurchú has said that local shoplifters are giving two fingers to the State.

Gardaí are currently investigating the alleged arson attack which took place at Horan Stud Farm, Claregalway on New Year's Eve. The blaze resulted in the death of one horse, injuring and burning a number of horses and resulted in a member of the family being hospitalised due to smoke inhalation.

A 16-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder in relation to the stabbing of a Defence Forces chaplain in Renmore in August.

Analysis of agency records show there were 4,552 referrals to Tusla’s Child Protection and Welfare Service in Galway in 2023, compared to 3,276 referrals in 2018, according to Tusla internal figures.

On 28 June 1920, members of the Connaught Rangers Regiment stationed at Wellington Barracks, Jullundur in Punjab, mutinied in protest against the activities of the British Army in Ireland. The irony of their stance as members of a colonial occupying army was, it would seem, lost on them. Two men took the protest to the Connaught Rangers company at Solon Barracks the next day. On the evening of 1 July, a group armed with bayonets attempted to take weapons from the magazine fort at Solon. The guard opened fire, killing a mutineer and an innocent man. The protest started peacefully at both locations—orders were ignored, tricolours were flown, Sinn Féin rosettes were worn, and rebel songs were sung. Sixty-one men were convicted of mutiny. Fourteen were sentenced to death, but only one, James Joseph Daly, was executed. Those imprisoned were released in 1923. Ballina man James J. Devers, one of the Solon mutineers, was among those released. Devers enlisted in 1918.