Date set for hearing over allegations of threats and demands for welfare money
Sat, Apr 04, 2026
A city man is to come before a September sitting of Galway District Court charged with threatening violence when attempting to take a social welfare payment from a victim who had just collected it.
Judge John King was told that it was believed by investigating Gardaí that the matter related to a drug debt.
It is alleged that when the injured party left the social welfare office at Bohermore he was challenged by the defendant in a threatening manner over money owed. Violence was threatened.
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