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A man who stole just over €900 worth of perfume from a Galway city shop received a four-month suspended sentence and was fined €400 at Galway District Court on Monday.

An Ardrahan man who cannot seem to keep his shirt on or in one piece when out socialising has been ordered to stay away from Galway city centre pending the completion of a community service report.

A stall operator was fined €750 at Galway District Court this week for exposing for sale a number of counterfeit hoodies and shirts which illegally bore the trade marks of some top sporting brands.

Two men were given a slap on the wrist and a fine for noisily bush drinking near a residential area, while people were getting up for work, and for being old enough to know better.

Causing trouble around the town ended in a fine of €400 for a chef in training.

A Ballybrit man who denied selling eight bags of heroin, was sentenced to 12 months at Galway District Court this week, after he failed to convince Judge Mary Fahy that he had been at the petrol station on the Tuam Road just “to get gear”.

A mother who, during an “act of desperation”, left her four-month old child on the father’s doorstep during a dispute received the Probation Act this week. However, the father was fined for leaving that child to freeze for over an half an hour in a car on a cold February night.

A burglar who had used up his chances was sentenced to six months at Galway District Court this week while his accomplice received a suspended sentence.

A recovering addict who had been caught in a car park next to Galway Garda Station with tin foil containing heroin on her lap was given a chance to co-operate with the probation services and remanded on continuing bail.

A road rage stand-off lasted for almost an hour on a busy road last August when two motorists, one championing the ignored Rules of the Road, blocked a traffic calming island and only agreed to move when a garda threatened to seize their cars, the Galway District Court heard last week.