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A man who caused damage to a Transit van after the owner of the van disrespected the defendant’s dead mother, has had the criminal damage charge dismissed under Section 11A at Ballina District Court this week.

A pregnant woman awaiting a Circuit Court sentence for false imprisonment during a burglary was warned she would still go to jail if she came to any further Garda attention within the next six months.

A 28-year-old man who struck out at gardai so violently that they were forced to use pepper spray to subdue and arrest him has been given a six month suspended sentence.

A woman in her 20s who pulled the hair and scraped the face of another woman, in an unprovoked attack outside a Ballina takeaway, was given the benefit of the Probation Act at Ballina District Court.

A Galway man who stole two purses from a back office of a shop on Christmas Eve was handed a 12 month prison sentence with the last three months suspended in Castlebar District Court on Tuesday this week. Martin McDonagh, of 64 Corrib Park, Newcastle, Co Galway pleaded guilty to the charges in court. The court was told that McDonagh went into the back room of Daly’s Newsagent at the Tesco shopping centre in Claremorris on December 24 2011 at 2.35pm and stole two purses from two handbags from the room. The gardai were called and Garda Brandley attended the scene and was shown CCTV footage which clearly showed McDonagh taking the purses from the handbags and putting them inside his trousers and making his exit from the shop.

NUI Galway law lecturer Donncha O’Connell has been appointed by the Minister for Justice and Equality, Alan Shatter to the State’s new Legal Aid Board.

A drunk man who was abusive to shop staff after he was refused the purchase of alcohol was given a suspended sentence at Ballina District Court this week.

The Probation Service has been ordered to be more creative, after it emerged that a man with a bad back following a serious accident was offered nothing but litter collection for community service.

A student who caused nearly €2,000 worth of damage to a number of cars, throwing a traffic cone through one car window, has been given the benefit of the Probation Act.

A woman, who while armed with tools to remove security tags caused extensive damage to a dress as she attempted to steal it from a city centre store, was fined €300 and given a four month suspended sentence at Galway District Court this week.