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THE proprietor of a Tuam discount shop was fined €2,000 and ordered to make a €2,500 payment to an animal welfare charity after he pleaded guilty to selling illegal glue traps in his Shop Street premises.

A man who was arrested for driving while disqualified and had his car seized by a Garda was again caught hours later by the same Garda driving a different vehicle and she had to repeat the whole process.

A judge warned at Ballinasloe District Court when he imposed a €300 fine on a woman who had been detected littering the community with her household waste, that the fine could have been much higher – in fact as high as €4,000.

Were ponies allowed to wander illegally on the public road or was it an act of God that brought down a tree on the night of Storm Éowyn in 2025 and allowed them escape?

A young Tuam man was ordered by a Judge at the local Court to hawk his CV around to every business in the town seeking work, and to come back before the Court again with proof that he had done so.

A habitual criminal whose solicitor told a court had spent most of his time over the past 20 years in prison was sentenced to a further 15 months when he was convicted of a number of offences, including abusing staff at a Ballinasloe food outlet.

“I don’t need to hear about people speeding about in an urban area and the public being put in danger,” a judge at Ballinasloe District Court exclaimed before putting the driver in question off the road for six months.

A woman in her late fifties who allegedly made off in a bread van and tore the side off it when she collided with a guardrail of the Ballinasloe AIB appealed to a judge at the local court to give her a chance.

Four men are to stand trial at the nonjury Special Criminal Court charged in connection with a plot to carry out a terrorist attack on a mosque in Galway last November.

A former jockey has entered a guilty plea to a drunk-driving charge from Australia.