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A Connemara man ended up being brought to a Garda station only hours after being released from prison after he failed to pay a taxi driver the €100 fare from Castlerea to Galway.

Taxi driving is an honourable profession and the court expects drivers to behave in a respectable manner, said a district court judge before imposing a six month sentence on a man who demanded more money from a passenger, despite setting a fixed fare, and then proceeded to viciously punch and kick him, leaving the wounded man on the side of a dark dangerous country road.

By Roisin Peddle

A repossession agent was found to have trespassed on private property and assaulted a man, whose van he was trying to repossess on behalf of ACC Asset Finance, at Castlebar District Court on Wednesday.

Jim Higgins, MEP for Co Westmeath, has welcomed the new measures announced by Minister for Public Transport, Alan Kelly, which he says will resolve the problems currently in existence in towns like Mullingar and Athlone due to an oversupply of taxis.

A Newcastle man who assaulted a passenger in a taxi they were sharing, in an unprovoked attack, handed over the last of the compensation owed and received the benefit of the Probation Act.

There was tragic news for two County Galway communities this week with the fatal Boston shooting of a young Aran Island native and the loss of a “gentleman” Connemara farmer.

A drunk who told a garda he would still be in his “sh**ty job in 20 years time” after being arrested for trying to evade a taxi fare, left the District Court €250 poorer this week (July 20).

Two men who were involved in an incident at a taxi rank in Castlebar, on December 14 2009, where Judge Mary Devins found both guilty of assault, appeared at this week’s sitting of Castlebar District Court for sentencing.

A man who tried to repossess a van on behalf of ACC Asset Finance was before Castlebar District Court this week on trespass and assault charges.