Search Results for 'District Court'

A man who was so drunk behind the wheel of a car that gardai had to break a window to get into the vehicle to wake him, avoided a driving ban in the District Court this week (July 13) after one of the arresting members took down the wrong registration and gave it in evidence in court.

The Galway man who murdered Swiss teenager Manuela Riedo has been remanded in custody pending sentence for raping a young French woman at knife point in 2007.

Two brothers accused of alleged theft by “deception” of €2,000 from an elderly woman have been remanded on continuing bail for service of the book of evidence.

An elderly farmer who drove a digger at neighbours and Gardai, dug up a road and knocked down an eircom pole on account of a 25-year land dispute, was partially successful in the Circuit Court this week (July 21) when he had a decision on his 15-year driving ban postponed until next June.

The Dublin Road is to get its 15th licenced premises soon, after an application to add an off-licence to a supermarket was upheld in the District Court this week (September 2).

A man with 150 previous convictions over the last 27 years due to his alcoholism, told a judge “I want to die” and asked for the electric chair or gallows before being told they “had long been taken from the statute books”, in the District Court this week (September 9).

A pregnant mother of nine avoided a 22-month jail sentence in the District Court this week (September 9) for shoplifting only because she has other outstanding charges to face in Mullingar on October 8.

A young woman chose nearly a year in prison rather than deal with her addiction through the Welfare and Probation Service (WPS) after being convicted in the District Court this week (September 23) of just €10 worth of shoplifting.

The man who allegedly stole €50,000 with a toy gun from a cash in transit employee making a delivery to an Athlone sub-post office last week was remanded in custody for another four weeks after he was unable to stump up €12,000 for bail.

A man charged with an assault of a woman at the Bonavalley bridge on the night of August 24 had his case adjourned until October 7 at the District Court this week (September 23) in order to arrange a Russian translator for his defence.