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“A well executed and planned onslaught on Galway city,” was how a district court judge described the actions of two Athlone women who dared to target 11 different shops stealing more than €3,600 worth of goods.

A district court judge was left in utter disbelief after hearing the exploits of a 22-year-old woman adept at “extracting money from foolish Irish men”.

A district court judge has warned that those who fail to pay taxi fares could soon face custodial sentences as the problem is increasing in the city.

The man responsible for an unprovoked and violent attack in which the victim sustained serious injury to the back of his head was captured on CCTV, a tool in crime prevention which was praised by a district court judge this week.

No one is entitled to be out armed with a potentially dangerous implement, said a district court judge who rubbished an excuse offered by a defendant that he had been carrying a hammer at 4am because he had been doing household work.

The owner of Galway’s adult cinema continued to elude city council officials this week after efforts to serve notice on the mystery businessman proved repeatedly unsuccessful.

A district court judge has described as “alarming” the number of people appearing before her on charges of drink driving.

A district court judge was left with no choice but to jail two unidentified illegal immigrants as gardai warned it could take up to four months to establish their true identity.

District Court judge John Neilan is urging people who find themselves in financial difficulty not to put their heads in the sand if faced with legal action. No court order will be made against those who cannot afford to pay, he said.

Pleading ignorance worked wonders for a rather eccentric musician who told a district court judge that he put a bottle of wine in his jacket pocket because he had no basket and then simply forgot about it.