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Internationally acclaimed Galway crime author Ken Bruen has won Le Grand Prix De La Littérature Policière 2009 for the best non-French language crime novel.

A young woman with no previous record who was arrested with heroin and a stolen prescription pad, was warned by the judge about whom she associated with, before he postponed two 11-month sentences until April to await a probation report.

A young woman with no previous record who was arrested with heroin and a stolen prescription pad, was warned by the judge about whom she associated with, before he postponed two 11-month sentences until April to await a probation report.

Noel O'Gara, the businessman and ground rent speculator who bought the title to a south Dublin suburban square from under the noses of the City Council three years ago, was fined a total of €4,700 in the District Court last week (January 16) after he was convicted of auditing four companies for which he was not qualified.

A case involving a man in his 40s who was before Ballina District Court this week, for drink driving and dangerous driving charges, was contested for three hours before the Iarnród Éireann employee was convicted of both charges.

A man, believed to have now fled the country, was sentenced to two years for a theft at a local school after fooling unsuspecting staff into believing that he was enrolling his child.

An unemployed Tynagh man, accused of drug dealing and being in possession of cannabis worth an estimated €1 million, has been remanded in custody and is due to stand trial in January.

A 45-year-old mother of two, who has been using cannabis for more than 30 years and was described by Judge Mary Devins as being a “mature Vicky Pollard”, was sentenced to jail for the unlawful possession of €1,699 worth of cannabis for the purpose of selling or supplying the drug to others.

Two women from Spain were brought before Ballina District Court on Tuesday following charges brought against them for offences against Section 11 of the Criminal Sexual Offences Act 1993, for running a brothel in the Quay area of Westport.

A woman was fined €650 for possession of a forged passport despite insisting that she did not know her uncle had fooled her and that the passport office at home in Zimbabwe, which has a 300,000 backlog, had run out of the proper paper.