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A woman arrested in her pyjamas chasing up the street with a length of a hoover pipe whilst drunk was fined €500 in the District Court this week (January 28).

The application of justice was postponed for a time in Athlone District Court this week (February 11) when the judge got vexed with the Garda Inspector over the non-production of evidence in a case where a guilty plea was already made.

A student facing drunken, public order charges for the second time in a month, left court again without a conviction after the judge reluctantly agreed to adjourn a final decision on sentencing until next October to see if the defendant's behaviour improves.

A man who threatened a traffic warden by saying, “I'll pay someone to get you,” and then shoved him to the ground just for being given a ticket, left court this week (March 25) without a conviction after he agreed to pay his victim €500.

The woman who made a drunken protest to Deputy Mary O'Rourke on the St Patrick's Day reviewing stand with an inflatable hammer was told “prison was on the line for you” as her sentencing was adjourned for a number of weeks to await a probation report.

“The water will stop flowing down the Shannon before you stop drinking,” said the judge to an alcoholic, in court for the 147th time.

A man arrested with an axe at a row outside a pub was given 13 months in jail but had his sentence postponed until October “to see how you've improved”.

A man who assaulted two gardai whilst on a suspended sentence was remanded in custody until July 13 at the District Court this week (May 27) to appear at the Circuit Court in Tullamore before the judge who initially handed down the suspended sentence.

A man who has spent his last 18 birthdays in prison will have to spend at least one more there after he was sentenced this week (May 27) to 22 months in prison for threatening gardai with a jagged vodka bottle.

A young woman who attempted to shoplift a whole trolleyful of groceries by just walking out the front door of a supermarket, was given a month in jail at the District Court this week (June 10).