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A MAN who racially abused an ethnic British security manager in a Tuam store was ordered to pay his victim €500 in compensation or face three months in prison.

THE proprietor of a Tuam discount shop was fined €2,000 and ordered to make a €2,500 payment to an animal welfare charity after he pleaded guilty to selling illegal glue traps in his Shop Street premises.

“I know now where Phoenix magazine got their ‘Bog Cuttings’ title from” a Judge quipped when a solicitor produced two sods of turf as evidence in a case involving a dispute over the quality of turf sold and a refusal to pay for it.

“Whyaren’t you working with the country at full employment?” a judge asked a troubled young man and put his case back for a month, warning him that he had better have a job when he returned to court.

A mother of three was convicted of crashing into a parked car in a hotel car park and doing damage to the tune of €3,000 before fleeing the scene when her case came before Judge James Faughnan at Tuam District Court.

A man, whose solicitor admitted had a “chequered history” when it came to road traffic offences, told a Judge that he had turned his life around, no longer drank or took drugs, and didn’t associate with those he had during his past. He pleaded to have his licence restored so he could continue working in construction.

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A defence solicitor pleaded that his client, charged with dangerous and careless driving, had been released from hospital on the day in question and should not have been allowed to get behind the wheel of a car as he was on medication at the time.

A mix-up over insurance coverage led to a Tuam farmer paying double premiums, a Judge decided, when he appeared before him on a charge of driving without insurance.