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‘No painting, no job' was the predicament a young house painter found himself in when told by his employer to drive a van, as described at Tuam District Court by his solicitor.

A WILLIAMSTOWN garage owner appeared before Tuam District Court charged with threatening to kill a client who refused to pay the amount demanded for repairing his vehicle.

A WOMAN who was sipping wine while cooking transpired to be almost four times over the legal limit when she was caught driving to the shops to pick up some missing meal ingredients.

“Some people think all their geese are swans,” a Judge quipped when he was told that the owner of a seriously defective car thought it was just fine.

A motorist was told he was lucky to be getting a three-year driving ban instead of what might have been six years for his second drunk driving offence.

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 who was put off the road for driving without insurance was caught driving once again by Gardaí only five months later, Judge James Faughnan observed when the second case came before him at Tuam District Court.

A judge asked why a tradesman was not working when his case came before Tuam District Court. Judge James Faughnan was told the father of six before him was a plasterer by trade, but was not currently working.

A defence solicitor admitted to a Judge that his client had “a horrendous history” when he was pleading to keep him out of prison at Tuam District Court.

So much waste was dumped by one individual at a notorious Tuam litter blackspot that he was charged with not having a permit to engage in waste disposal by Galway County Council.