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You're now on the radar so be very careful, a Judge warned a young man to whom he gave the benefit of the Probation Act following his admission of guilt on a coke possession charge.

“He’s only playing games with the Court,” was the response from a Judge at Galway District Court when a young father appeared before him pleading that he didn’t have the money to pay fines and asking to do community service instead.

A horse trader will be on shank’s mare for ten years or more after he was banned from driving once again for a decade by Judge John King at Galway District Court. The defendant was caught driving again after he was put off the road for ten years in 2021.

“This is his first time in a court and no doubt it will be his last,” is how a defence solicitor summed up his client who appeared before Judge John King at Galway District Court on a charge of possessing cocaine.

THE District Court is the clearing house of the judicial system. Steal an axe and it will deal with you. Use the axe to give someone 40 whacks and depending on the damage done, you might be dealt with. Use the axe to dispatch and the process starts here before you are moved up the court chain. All human life, it’s fair to say, is reflected in our District Courts.

A landmark moment in Maigh Cuilinn basketball arrives this Saturday at the Kingfisher, where the club will, for the first time ever, host a National League men’s-and-women’s double header on home court.

A woman visiting Galway for the weekend was “financially and emotionally affected” when she discovered her car damaged by a thief, costing her €550 to repair it.

A Galwayman who skipped bail and fled to the UK a decade ago to make a new life for himself found himself back before Court again this week facing the same charges he had thought he had left behind.

A defence solicitor pleaded that his client, charged with dangerous and careless driving, had been released from hospital on the day in question and should not have been allowed to get behind the wheel of a car as he was on medication at the time.

A driver caught speeding by a detector van told a Judge that he couldn’t pay the fixed charge fine sent in the post because “the dog ate it”.