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“Ye Gardaí are just on a big power trip,” a drunken man shouted at Mullingar Garda Station after he was arrested for public order offences.

The legal aid system was a source of much discussion at Mullingar District Court as Judge John Neilan heard applications from dozens of defendants who pleaded an inability to pay their legal fees.

Christy ‘Ditsy’ Nevin asked to withdraw his legal aid application at Mullingar District Court and said he was not intimidated by the presence of Criminal Assets Bureau officers.

Judge John Neilan’s concerns about the presence and use of guns at a country fair were allayed at the recent sitting of Mullingar District Court.

Mullingar District Court saw the tragic effects of addiction on a family as a mother told how she worried about what a late-night phone call might bring.

A man has told Mullingar District Court that he will not abuse a postponement of his drink driving disqualification.

An elderly farmer who drove a digger at neighbours and Gardai, dug up a road and knocked down an eircom pole on account of a 25-year land dispute, was partially successful in the Circuit Court this week (July 21) when he had a decision on his 15-year driving ban postponed until next June.

The whole of County Mayo was shocked this week following two stabbing incidents in the space of three days which saw one man killed and a garda require emergency surgery. Gardaí have arrested people in connection with both incidents, the first which took place in Westport on Sunday last at 1am, when a garda was stabbed. A youth has appeared in court this week in relation to those charges.

Judge John Neilan has jailed a woman with 127 convictions, saying that he must seek to reassure members of society.

A man who had been reluctantly released on bail by Judge Neilan who had concerns for his safety, has been arrested in Liverpool.