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Dangerous driver with blind mother gets ban reduced
Up to 200 “boy racers” were travelling around Galway city last August in convoys and gathering in car parks to show off their skills and their wanton disregard for their safety and the safety of others.
Man harasses neighbours and threatens to kill one of them
A case in which a man persistently harassed members of a neighbouring family threatening to kill one of them has been adjourned so that proper treatment and services can be made available to him.
Dangerous driver with blind mother gets road ban reduced
Up to 200 “boy racers” were travelling around Galway city last August in convoys and gathering in car parks to show off their skills and their wanton disregard for their safety and the safety of others and there was a Mayo man at the centre of them, a court heard this week.
Ballinasloe man jailed for three years after syringe attack
A Galway man who held a woman at syringe point in her van in the car park of Liffey Valley shopping centre has been jailed for three years at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Safe dismantler told judge his crime was like ‘finding treasure’
A Thomastown man who worked changing locks on safes couldn’t resist temptation and made off with cash and jewellery worth thousands of euro, Kilkenny District Court heard this week.
Shotgun sentence may be activated after Ballinasloe man pleads guilty to flick-knife possession
A Galway man may have his four year suspended sentence for possession of a shotgun reactivated at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court after he pleaded guilty to possession of a flick-knife in Athlone.
Two men plead guilty to bookies’ robbery
Two men in their 20s have pleaded guilty to the robbery of more than €1,700 at number of bookies’ offices earlier this year.
Assault and bullying of curtain maker was vicious, says judge
A single mother who had been sentenced to five months in jail for assaulting a woman just because she was not satisfied with curtain alterations succeeded in having the sentence suspended at the Galway Circuit Appeals Court last Tuesday.
Ballyhaunis native ‘Tom the Con’ to be sentenced next month
A former prison officer turned serial con man who was the subject of an RTÉ Liveline campaign to track him down will be sentenced next month at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court.
Man gets one year for bouncing cheques
Leading a “topsy turvy life of excess” yielded one year in prison for a young Kilkenny man in Circuit Court this week. Shane Pouch (28) now living in Stephenstown Lodge Two Mile House Naas Co Kildare was before Judge Olive Buttimer on 12 counts of deception dating from June 14, 2007 to October 5, 2007. The court heard that during this period of time, Mr Pouch purported to be a businessman with a penchant for luxury about to run a restaurant in Kilkenny city.
