Search Results for 'Owen Carty'

The man whose conviction for farmyard theft in March led to a judge praising the Mayo farmer who shot dead a Traveller trespasser, avoided jail in the District Court this week (June 22) after his father promised the defendant would deliver a “lorryload of turf” to St Vincent de Paul as a community service alternative.

A pair of brothers caught trying to sell stolen scaffolding to a scrapyard both received suspended sentences in the District Court this week (September 1).

A student pleading not guilty to a drink driving charge at a special sitting of the District Court this week (March 29) failed to have it struck out after a judge accepted a garda was capable of searching the prisoner as well as maintaining the mandatory period of observation.

A man who forced a Garda car to stop by breaking a Yield sign at 3am and was arrested for drink driving, had his conviction dismissed in the District Court this week (January 26) when the judge agreed the place of arrrest given by the garda in evidence differed from the address on the charge sheet.

A man who panicked at being stopped, and sideswiped the Garda when driving away before escaping down the railway after scaling a nine-foot fence, was banned from driving for two years and fined €1,500 in the District Court this week (December 16).

A man who spent most of the last month in jail while trying to raise bail on a contested burglary charge, gained a week's freedom when his wife put up the christening fund for their 10-week-old child as surety.

A man who put his ex-partner in fear for her life when he breached a safety order to tell her he'd cut her throat, was jailed for 11 months in the District Court this week (May 27).

After an unsettled few months, Athlone’s Passionfruit Theatre is getting ready to reopen its doors to the public next week.

A lorry driver fined €7,000 in his absence two weeks ago, was given leave to appeal in the District Court this week (October 28) after he told the court he had been assured by his employer it had been dealt with.

A judge sympathised with the plight of a brain-injured defendant but felt he was left with no option other than jailing him for 22 months at the last sitting of the District Court (December 16) for three breaches of a banning order brought by his former partner.