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Two men who robbed nearly €2,000 from punters at a number of bookies were brought before Galway District Court last Monday.

An heavily pregnant woman received a four-month suspended sentence this week for stealing bottles of perfume valued at almost €1,000, an act which was described by a district court judge as a “planned operation”.

Pleading ignorance worked wonders for a rather eccentric musician who told a district court judge that he put a bottle of wine in his jacket pocket because he had no basket and then simply forgot about it.

Two Dublin men, charged in connection with an armed raid on a businessman’s home last Sunday, have been remanded in custody and will appear in court again tomorrow (Friday) at Harristown District Court, in Roscommon.

A chef at a city centre fast-food restaurant received an unwelcome visit from one of his toughest critics yet — an abusive patron who after being served food entered the kitchen and assaulted him.

A Connemara man who allegedly made 1,400 menacing and abusive phone calls to a number of health care workers and rape crisis centres has been remanded in custody for the purpose of being assessed by the Central Mental Hospital as soon as possible.

A six-months pregnant woman was punched in the stomach by a drunk and abusive man who claimed that his drink had been “spiked”, the Galway District Court heard this week.

A man who filled a plastic bag with flammable liquid, set it alight, and then threw it at the gate of the hostel after he had been refused entry was sentenced to three months in jail when he appeared at Galway District Court last Monday.

A man who showed a “frightening” disregard for drink driving laws was sentenced to five months in jail and disqualified for a total of eight years at Galway District Court last Monday.

A drink driver who was found trying to pull out of a filling station with no lights and the handbrake on while disqualified will now spend four months in jail before being deported.