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Athlone’s ongoing Connacht/Leinster conundrum showed a whole new manifestation in the District Court last week (October 24) when it was responsible for getting a man off a drinking charge despite his being over twice the limit.

Another man who failed an intoxiliser test got to walk from the court this week (November 24) with his licence intact after the arresting garda got the car registration wrong, the townland wrong, and failed to sign the receipts issued by the intoxilising machine.

A man who produced a reading nearly twice the legal limit for driving on August 4 left court with an unblemished record last Tuesday (December 2) after it was finally proven the place of arrest on his charge sheet was incorrect.

A 63-year-old farmer who refused to give a sample after being detected for drink driving and threw the urine sample jug at a wall, was convicted, fined, and disqualified at Castlebar District Court on Wednesday.

A drink driver who was found trying to pull out of a filling station with no lights and the handbrake on while disqualified will now spend four months in jail before being deported.

“She’s not a kick-start machine,” said Judge John Neilan as he disqualified a man from driving for seven years after he said the machine used to test his alcohol level was faulty.

A drink driver who led gardai on a dangerous high speed chase throughout the city for over a half an hour last year has been jailed for 14 months and disqualified for six years.

A dopey drink driver abandoned his crashed car in such haste that he left behind a mobile phone containing clues which led gardai to find a small cannabis cultivation unit in his house, the Galway District Court heard yesterday.

A woman who, while nearly three times over the blood alcohol limit crashed into the back of a car causing a “knock-on” effect, received a five month suspended sentence and a six year disqualification from driving at Galway District Court last Monday.