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Only the Garda Síochána escaped the wrath of Judge John Neilan at the recent sitting of Mullingar District Court. Not even Thierry Henry and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were spared.

A woman who retracted a statement of complaint against her husband after he allegedly hit her, bit her and threatened to kill her in breach of a two-year-old safety order, was heavily criticised in the District Court this week (November 25).

In 10 years not one Mullingar solicitor has picked up a special exemption order granted by the court.

Only the Garda Síochána escaped the wrath of Judge John Neilan at the recent sitting of Mullingar District Court. Not even Thierry Henry and French President Nicolas Sarkozy were spared.

For the second week in a row, scores of disappointed defendants left Mullingar District Court without their cases being heard.

A bus driver caught speeding outside Athlone managed to beat his summons in the District Court this week (December 2) after he showed the judge the state the official document arrived in through his letterbox.

The failure by the IDA to attract a blue-chip anchor tenant to the windswept and empty business park in Marlinstown Park in Mullingar was brought to the Government’s attention by local Labour Party TD, Willie Penrose, this week (December 3).

A woman whose drunken driving caused a Garda patrol car to swerve, failed in an attempt to overturn her ban in the Circuit Court this week (December 8).

A judge described as “farcical” a man’s attempt to appeal a three-year drink driving ban by arguing his crashed car was no longer a mechanically propelled vehicle, and that he only started drinking the half bottle of vodka while waiting for the tow-truck.

A man who recently threatened the life of his ex-partner in a birthday card to their nine-year-old daughter, was remanded in continuing custody at the Circuit Court this week (December 8) until his place and movements in and out of a brain injury facility could be guaranteed.