Search Results for 'Raymond Groarke'
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Jury fails to reach verdict on dangerous driving causing death charge
The jury in the trial of a 21-year-old Spiddal man charged with dangerous driving causing death of a woman at Inverin, in the summer of 2008, failed to reach a verdict on the charge.
Sentence reduced for selling cannabis but another imposed for drunk driving
A circuit court judge reduced a five-month sentence, imposed on a man for selling a small quantity of cannabis, but he directed that another sentence imposed on the same man for drunken driving, run consecutively to the drugs related sentence.
Jewel thief given sentence with half suspended
A man who brandished a claw hammer during the robbery of a city centre jewellers last February, was jailed for three years with the final 18 months of the sentence suspended, at Galway Circuit Criminal Court.
Two years suspended for would-be presidential assassin
A Kilkenny native security guard and former US naval engineer who threatened to shoot President George W Bush through the head and blow up the American Embassy in Dublin was given a suspended two-year sentence at Galway Circuit Criminal Court last Friday afternoon.
Men’s faces sliced open with broken pint glass, court hears
A man was sentenced to three and a half years behind bars for a vicious pub fight in which he used a broken pint glass to slice the faces of two other men.
Suspended sentence for man who ‘bottled’ doorman
A Shantalla man who smashed a bottle across the back of a doorman’s head after consuming a cocktail of drink and drugs, has been given a suspended 18-month sentence by a Circuit Court judge.
Man pleads guilty to supplying cannabis at railway station
A 37-year-old man has pleaded guilty to supplying cannabis to others at Galway Railway Station nearly 10 years ago, following his appearance before Galway Circuit Criminal Court last week.
Get off drugs or go to prison
A Circuit Court judge has left a prison sentence hanging over a recovering Mervue heroin addict with a warning that the warrant for his committal to prison will issue if he takes the drug between now and November.
Twelve years for would-be assassin
The champion weightlifter who destroyed a man’s hand with a point-blank shotgun blast has been jailed for 12 years.
Nine months knocked off sentence of drug dealer
A small-time drug dealer who had been arrested during Operation Scarf, a surveillance operation carried out last year by members of the National Drugs Unit, had the last nine months of a 21 month sentence suspended at Galway Circuit Appeals Court last Tuesday.
