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Four men charged in relation to the weekend raid of Galway city grow houses which resulted in the seizure of cannabis plants with an estimated value of €730,000 have been further remanded in custody with consent to appear at Harristown District Court tomorrow.

A man who took part in a scam by accepting delivery of mobile phones bought with stolen credit card details had been using a false name and identification to get work in a Galway city centre shop after sneaking into the country from Belfast, the Galway District Court heard this week.

A Galway native who had been buying and selling vehicles between the UK and Ireland for more than four decades was branded in court this week as an “utter conman” after he failed to contest the charge of being in possession of a stolen vehicle and was fined €1,000 and given a 12 month suspended sentence.

A 26-year-old Ballybane man, who being in possession of a slash hook which was thrown from a car which sped dangerously away from the scene with gardai in hot pursuit, has been sentenced to a total of nine months in jail and disqualified from driving for three years.

The case of man accused of verbally abusing a phone store worker and threatening to break her jaw was dismissed at Galway District Court after it was discovered that faulty CCTV footage had not been handed over to the defence.

Birthday celebrations that went too far ended in a four month jail sentence for a 28-year-old man who harassed and spat at passers by before leaving an elderly man visibly shaken by demanding money and then slapping an ice cream violently out of his hand.

A father and daughter were fined €300 each at Galway District Court this week for attempting to prevent a garda from finding a knife which had been produced during a St Patrick’s Day dispute.

A Westmeath chronic alcoholic who used up every chance given to him by the court has been jailed for 10 months after continuing to re-offend by nicking bottles of wine from a number of city centre premises and committing public order offences.

A Mayo woman, with 88 previous convictions, was sentenced to six months in jail for entering the staff area of a city centre jewellers and stealing money from handbags.

A 28-year-old man who struck out at gardai so violently that they were forced to use pepper spray to subdue and arrest him has been given a six month suspended sentence.