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A man who landed a helicopter on the roof of an Athlone shopping centre in 2007 after flying just 22 kms to collect a set of keys, was fined €5,000 in the District Court this week (December 14).

A student who took a garda’s jacket from the squad car that brought him home after a post-exam bender last May, will have to wait until March to hear the judge’s final decision after the court heard he couldn’t appear this week (December 16), as he was sitting an exam.

A man alleged to have taken an angle grinder to a parking meter in St Mary’s Square, had his case put back to January 6, the District Court heard this week (December 16).

A Mullingar man who appeared at a special court sitting on Sunday, charged with criminally damaging the offices of Senator Camillus Glynn, faces further charges of smearing the building’s door and window with human excrement.

A man from Westport who while disqualified from driving was detected driving in Castlebar in September of this year was before Judge David Anderson at Castlebar District Court on Wednesday.

Three Shell to Sea protesters who were involved in a protest in September 2008, while taking part in a vehicle protest throughout the Erris area in support of Maura Harrington’s hunger strike, blocked in and surrounded an unmarked Garda car, were each sentenced to six months in jail after they refused to undertake community service.

A man who took a trailerload of waste timber from a forest had the charges of theft against him dismissed in the District Court last week (December 16) after the judge was critical of Caoillte for not properly using such a resource.

A judge sympathised with the plight of a brain-injured defendant but felt he was left with no option other than jailing him for 22 months at the last sitting of the District Court (December 16) for three breaches of a banning order brought by his former partner.

There were amusing scenes at Mullingar District Court when a highly drunk man appeared before Judge John Neilan.

A sportsman, a good family man, and a distinguished lawyer who always put people’s needs first and foremost, these were just some of the heartfelt tributes paid at the Galway courthouse to local solicitor Jarlath McInerney who died following a fall at his home last Saturday.