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An eight-months-pregnant Galway woman who stabbed her neighbour to death in a row over a puppy has been jailed for nine years at the Central Criminal Court.

A 31-year-old mother, pregnant with her ninth child, was sentenced to 11 months’ imprisonment by Judge John Neilan at Mullingar Court last week.

A man who pleaded guilty to assaulting another man escaped with a fine at Castlecomer District Court this week.

There was on average one sex attack every 10 days in the Galway West Garda division during the last four years, according to figures released by the Central Statistics Office.

A five month sentence has been imposed on a man who resisted violently to arrest by kicking out, attempted to get a meal for free, causing annoyance at a hostel, and then failing to turn up to court.

A “total picture of utter lawlessness” was how a district court judge described the actions of a homeless man who was jailed for driving into a petrol station with the number plates covered by shaving foam and stealing more than €100 worth of petrol.

A charge of murder against the man accused of killing Kilbeggan pensioner Christy Hanley last May has been reduced to manslaughter.

A teenager who banged on the door of a taxi and then assaulted the driver during an argument with his girlfriend was ordered to pay compensation at Galway District Court this week.

A Donegal man, who assaulted a taxi driver by punching him in the side of his face on the night the accused proposed to his girlfriend, was ordered to hand over up to €1,800 in fines and compensation.

The repeated violent behaviour of a man, once convicted of manslaughter, was a cause of great concern for a district court judge this week.