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Gardai are appealing for witnesses following a recent spate of robberies, assaults, and burglaries.

A Lithuanian man (42), who in the space of two years has clocked up 25 theft convictions, was before Castlebar District Court this week for another theft charge.

Westmeath has recorded an 18 per cent decrease in the incidence of burglary, according to the 2010 eircom PhoneWatch Burglary Report. The report, which tracked burglaries between June 2009 and June 2010, also revealed that April and May were the most targeted months for burglaries in Westmeath.

A career thief who assumed a false identity and used a sophisticated method to target electrical goods shops across the country was jailed for a total of 17 months for stealing more than €2,500 worth of cameras from one Galway city centre store in just three days alone.

A 37-year-old Galway man has admitted sexually assaulting a young boy for more than two years at a house on the west of the city and will now face a sentencing hearing in early December.

A man charged with four counts of dangerous driving has been sent forward to the Circuit Court.

A man who claimed a lack of grit on the road led to his dangerous driving has been fined €250 for the offence.

An Inverin man had been out on temporary release from prison when he drove his car while drunk, smashing into road signs, before coming to a stop in the middle of a roundabout, the Galway District Court heard this week.

The number of men contacting Galway Rape Crisis Centre has almost doubled in the past three years according to its 2009 annual report, which will be launched tomorrow (Friday).

More that 180 incidents of illegal dumping and fly-tipping in Galway were made to a hotline set up by the Environmental Protection Agency over the past four years.