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A man who “slid on gravel” and crashed into a vehicle causing injury to a number of its passengers failed in having the charge reduced and was fined a total of €700 and ordered to pay witness expenses of €150.

A young man, charged with drunk and dangerous driving, could have been saved from serving a seven month sentence if he had brought his cheque book to pay more than €5,000 worth of damage, the Galway District Court heard this week.

A woman was fined €650 for possession of a forged passport despite insisting that she did not know her uncle had fooled her and that the passport office at home in Zimbabwe, which has a 300,000 backlog, had run out of the proper paper.

Hurling abuse at gardai will not be tolerated said Judge Mary Fahy this week after hearing how a teenager shouted personal insults after trying to help his brother during a fight in Eyre Square.

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 man who stole a €400 bottle of wine, attempted to evade arrest by jumping into a river, and used Woodquay as his “stomping ground” to steal cars has been sentenced to 13 months in jail.

A man who was found to be nearly four times over the legal limit after fleeing the scene of a traffic accident and who poured paint stripper over a motorbike during a family dispute has been sentenced to seven months in jail and disqualifed for six years.

A man who stole a mobile phone and cigarettes from the kitchen area of Subway and attempted to steal cars in Ballybane had an extra six months added to a sentence already being served.

Two men who had allegedly been found in possession of a pipe bomb, a discovery which led to the evacuation of Galway Garda Station earlier this year, were both remanded in custody for a further two weeks to allow time for the service of a book of evidence.

Two men allegedly found in possession of a pipe bomb, a rifle and a silencer at Creggan Upper in Athlone in February were both remanded in custody for a further two weeks to allow time for the service of a Book of Eidence.