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Every individual is entitled to one chance, one opportunity to keep their slate clean, but if they offend again there are no more chances for them.

A 21-year-old with 18 road traffic convictions who is currently off the road now works with his father in the car business, his solicitor told Galway District Court, where he picked up two more traffic convictions, bringing his total to 20.

A plea was made at Galway District Court not to impose a criminal conviction on a young engineer as this would seriously impact on his travel options for work in the future.

A woman with a string of previous convictions for begging in public was ordered to stay out of Galway city centre as part of her bail conditions when her case came before the local Court.

“She got a chance and I can’t give her another,” was the response of a Judge to a plea for leniency when dealing with a young woman who pleaded guilty to a theft charge.

A young man who filmed an intimate act he was engaging in with a woman on Snapchat, and then shared it on Snapchat, tried to apologise to his victim on Snapchat, his solicitor told Galway Court. He added that his client got no response.

An 18-year-old girl spat into the face of an arresting Garda when she was being arrested for being drunk and a nuisance at Eyre Square.

A young man was given a chance to keep a serious drug conviction off his record when he came before Judge Valerie Corcoran at Galway District Court.

An Oranmore man who turned up in court with €3,000 in cash to compensate a man who suffered what a judge described as “a terrible gash” to his lip which required hospital treatment and stitches, was told to come back with another €1,000 and a good report from a Restorative Justice programme he was ordered to attend.

A man found stripped to the waist and in an agitated condition was not in conflict with anybody but himself.