Search Results for 'Ernie White'

A man who brazenly stole expensive work tools from an industrial store room in broad daylight and tried to fool a discount retail shop by swapping tags on runners was sentenced to three months.

A dangerous motorcylist who raced through Eyre Square, forcing a garda to jump out of the way, and charged at a checkpoint before losing control, was sentenced to 10 months in jail this week.

A 47-year-old depressed schizophrenic, with 23 previous convictions, has been fined €200 for roaring insulting abuse at a garda in the station’s public office.

Two men accused of offences committed while participating in organised crime have been further remanded in custody.

A cheeky burglar who tried to steal a till from a petrol station during the afternoon and pried open a locker in a hotel stealing a valuable watch was given an extra seven months in jail.

A chancer who tried to scoop a €1,000 win with a stolen betting slip was given a seven month suspended sentence this week after failing to come up with compensation.

A man who claimed he stole aftershave, perfume, and clothes from city centre stores to provide for his family received four months in jail at Galway District Court this week.

An alcoholic homeless man who threatened a garda that he had Aids and would bite him was sentenced to a total of five months in jail for the serious nature of the abuse.

A 25-year-old Gort woman, who was fined €900 this week for careless driving and hit and run offences, was good enough to leave her vehicle’s licence plate behind for gardai before fleeing the scene of a traffic accident, the Galway District Court heard this week.

The man responsible for an unprovoked and violent attack in which the victim sustained serious injury to the back of his head was captured on CCTV, a tool in crime prevention which was praised by a district court judge this week.