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GARDAI have better things to do than to go about picking drunks up from the street, was the reaction of a Judge when a Court regular once again appeared before Galway District Court on public order charges.

A young man who arrived in Tuam to reside in Simon Community accommodation and who has been given a council house in the town, was told by a judge that he must either be in work or vocational training when his case comes before Galway District Court again next March.

A Galway boxing coach will have to wait and see how his conviction for a serious public order offence will impact on his licence to coach, Galway District Court heard this week.

You're now on the radar so be very careful, a Judge warned a young man to whom he gave the benefit of the Probation Act following his admission of guilt on a coke possession charge.

A horse trader will be on shank’s mare for ten years or more after he was banned from driving once again for a decade by Judge John King at Galway District Court. The defendant was caught driving again after he was put off the road for ten years in 2021.

A solicitor told a Court that his chronic alcoholic client, who had 52 previous convictions for public order offences, usually for being drunk in public, was a “nuisance but not a menace”.

A man detained in prison since his arrest for the burglary of an Athenry pub pleaded via video link from prison to Judge James Faughnan that he was a tradesman, and if the judge let him out he would work on building sites to pay back the loss to the pub.

A Wicklow farmers had a costly sting in the tail to a stag night in Galway when a return trip to the city left him €750 the poorer.

Galway United’s win last March in the Ryan McBride Brandywell was the result that demanded they be taken seriously by the rest of the division. Less than three weeks into this season, they have already accomplished that task as they seek to repeat a massive win tomorrow night.

Although Galway United are only four games into their Premier Division campaign, there is plenty to extrapolate from a busy week in the top tier. There will likely be more at 10pm tomorrow night after they entertain Drogheda United at Eamonn Deacy Park. Kick-off is at 7.45pm.