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A mother of four who used a car in the process of a theft avoided being disqualified from driving but was ordered to stay out of Galway city for a year when her case came before Galway District Court.

A Judge was impressed with a young man who she described as “a hardworking individual who wanted to improve his lot in life” when he came before her on a drug possession charge.

A judge this week adjourned the trial of three Pro-Palestinian activists, including two from Galway, concerning an alleged incursion at Shannon airport until the Supreme Court rules on a “legal point of public importance” relevant to the defence in the case. At Ennis Circuit Court, Judge Francis Comerford told the three accused that if the trial proceeds he could be asking the jury to decide the case “on the basis of law that might not in fact be the correct law”.

A 14-year old Ennis boy has appeared in court in connection with a spate of alleged car thefts in east Clare and south Galway last week.

A JUDGE warned a mother that she could lose her home, or whatever she had, if she was sued by the victims of any traffic incident she got involved in while driving without insurance.

A MAN convicted of stalking and harassing his former partner was warned in no uncertain terms that a suspended sentence imposed on him would be activated “without a shred of doubt” if he put the victim in fear again.

CARRYING a Samurai sword around the streets of Galway is simply not on, a Judge told a man at Galway District Court on Monday, when she banned him from the city centre for two years and ordered the destruction of his sword.

An asylum seeker thought the Garda estimate of the value of the cannabis he was caught with was way over the top, his solicitor told Galway District Court.

A MAN caused such concern by following and intimidating his former partner while she was doing her driving test, that the examiner had to call off the exam out of safety fears.

Members of the public were so concerned to see a vulnerable man very close to city waterways that the Gardaí were contacted, Judge Valerie Corcoran was told at Galway District Court when the man appeared before her on two public order charges.