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A 19-year-old man who stole a €10 shirt while he was drunk was before Ballina District Court on Tuesday.

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.

A student who caused nearly €2,000 worth of damage to a number of cars, throwing a traffic cone through one car window, has been given the benefit of the Probation Act.

A man charged in connection with the seizure of cannabis, estimated to be worth in the region of €72,000, last December has pleaded guilty to drug dealing.

The probation services is currently “stretched” to the limit which could result in court referrals to the vital service being severely curtailed, the Galway District Court heard this week.

A Ballyhaunis man who was involved in a minor accident in a supermarket car park while driving without insurance or a licence was given the benefit of the Probation Act and ordered to pay €100 to the Garda benevolent fund in Claremorris District Court.

“He needs to be brought to his senses and removed from his influences,” Judge Seamus Hughes said as he jailed a Mullingar man for four months for threatening behaviour.

A Rahoon man who, during a sudden and unexpected outburst in court told a district court judge that she should be shot when it was revealed he lied about engaging with the probation services, will now serve an extra four months in jail.

A mother paid a man €3,500 to falsely register himself as her baby’s father during a passport application in a bid to ensure that the child could remain in the country, the Galway Circuit Criminal Court heard this week.

A man who, when arrested for being intoxicated in public, urinated all over the cell door and floor in Castlebar Garda Station, was given the Probation Act at Castlebar District Court this week.