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A former soldier who tried to force a disorientated woman to give him oral sex should receive a long prison sentence when he is sentenced in two weeks, according to his victim.

A Westmeath resident who escaped in handcuffs from gardai arresting him on St Patrick’s day for driving a stolen car but was caught later that night driving a second stolen car has been given a suspended sentence.

A Carraroe man got caught up in a “Del Boy situation” when pub-talk in England led to him purchasing €600 worth of poor quality counterfeit notes at a location in Westside, the Galway District Court heard this week.

A case involving a Galway based bus company accused of running unlicensed non-stop daily services to Dublin, was adjourned after the presiding district court judge reserved judgment until relevant legislation and documents could be considered fully.

A grandmother who defrauded her lover’s company of €77,000 after she was appointed as financial controller has been given a suspended sentence at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

Two more men yesterday gave evidence of being sexually abused by a Christian Brother in a Galway industrial school some 40 years ago.

A court has heard that an "extremely anti-clerical" social worker investigating alleged sexual abuse at a Galway school was eventually taken off the case by the former Western Health Board.

A Galway cocaine addict who had sex with a 14-year-old schoolgirl in a Dublin hotel room will be sentenced later at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.

An ex-Christian Brother has been acquitted by direction of Judge Tony Hunt of sexually assaulting boys some 40 years ago in a Galway industrial school.

A jury has been given copies of letters exchanged between a Christian Brother and the family of a boy who was lodged in a Galway residential school after his father lost their family home to a neighbour in a game of cards.