Search Results for 'Probation'

A man who, when drunk, interfered with the work of a doctor who was assisting an injured man, was given the benefit of the Probation Act at Ballina District Court.

A tattooist who took part in a punishment beating along with other masked members of a now disbanded biker gang has been given a five year sentence suspended on strict conditions and ordered to pay a further €6,375.

A 28-year-old man who was found in possession of €51 worth of cannabis was given the benefit of the Probation Act at this week’s sitting of Ballina District Court.

A man who caused damage to a Transit van after the owner of the van disrespected the defendant’s dead mother, has had the criminal damage charge dismissed under Section 11A at Ballina District Court this week.

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 in her 20s who pulled the hair and scraped the face of another woman, in an unprovoked attack outside a Ballina takeaway, was given the benefit of the Probation Act at Ballina District Court.

A Galway man who stole two purses from a back office of a shop on Christmas Eve was handed a 12 month prison sentence with the last three months suspended in Castlebar District Court on Tuesday this week. Martin McDonagh, of 64 Corrib Park, Newcastle, Co Galway pleaded guilty to the charges in court. The court was told that McDonagh went into the back room of Daly’s Newsagent at the Tesco shopping centre in Claremorris on December 24 2011 at 2.35pm and stole two purses from two handbags from the room. The gardai were called and Garda Brandley attended the scene and was shown CCTV footage which clearly showed McDonagh taking the purses from the handbags and putting them inside his trousers and making his exit from the shop.

A 33-year-old man who sold drugs to pay for his chronic alcoholic problems received a six months suspended sentence and warned to seek help for his difficulties.

A Connemara flasher who indecently exposed himself to children attending an Irish college, offering them money to perform sexual acts on him, and who assaulted a woman while being treated in hospital has been given an 11 month prison suspended sentence and ordered to abide by strict conditions.

A man, who subjected a young woman to a 17-month long campaign of harassment and intimidation during which he stalked her and made numerous offensive remarks, received an 11 month prison sentence with the final five months suspended with strict conditions.