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A case for PULSE being installed in probation offices was indirectly made in the District Court this week (November 11) after a judge made the extraordinarily rare move of criticising a probation officer for submitting an incomplete report on a defendant.

A judge suggested to a man who owes the State €50,000 that he default on his bank repayments and when it seeks legal redress he tell them that “the taxpayers are paying €3bn to bail them out”.

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).

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 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.

A man who landed a helicopter on the roof of an Athlone shopping centre in 2007 after flying just 22 kms to collect a set of keys, was fined €5,000 in the District Court this week (December 14).

A woman who disagreed with a judge’s opinion in the District Court this week (December 16) was threatened with seven days in Mountjoy for her trouble.

A man caught in possession of €7,000 worth of heroin a year and a half ago, was finally jailed for 22 months in the District Court this week (December 16) after 12 court appearances and “seven chances”.