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A GMIT student and his co-accused have admitted hacking into Fine Gael’s website in the lead-up to the 2011 general election as part of a “stunt” to embarass the party.

A 40-year-old Westmeath man has admitted he tried to lure two teenage boys to perform sexual favours for him, but said he did it because he was lonely.

A teenage boy, regarded as one of Athlone’s most prolific burglars, made a failed attempt to abscond from custody on Wednesday (February 27) as he was being led from the courthouse to the prison van to return to detention.

A judge refused to allow a young woman off the remainder of a community sentence order after she claimed she was pregnant.

A judge decided to send out a message to the State’s stationers this week (January 2) when he struck out a shoplifting charge on accout of a recurring printing error on the summons.

A teenage boy - once described by a Garda source as “Athlone’s most troublesome burglar” - found himself back inside again this week (October 3) in an attempt by the judge to kick-start his education.

A pregnant woman awaiting a Circuit Court sentence for false imprisonment during a burglary was warned she would still go to jail if she came to any further Garda attention within the next six months.

A woman who tripled the value of her shoplifting while still on bail from a previous conviction was given one more chance in court this week (May 2) when she promised “I’ll never rob again”, but warned she would get “six months or more” if she did.

If anyone has a disused, overgrown walled garden around Mullingar, they should contact Judge Seamus Hughes.

The Probation Service has been ordered to be more creative, after it emerged that a man with a bad back following a serious accident was offered nothing but litter collection for community service.