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A mother who, during an “act of desperation”, left her four-month old child on the father’s doorstep during a dispute received the Probation Act this week. However, the father was fined for leaving that child to freeze for over an half an hour in a car on a cold February night.

A case of casual trading without a permit was dismissed and charges dropped against two non-national women after arresting gardai could not produce balls of wool and knitting needles in court as evidence.

A man charged with five counts of assault against four gardaí and with a hit and run was sentenced to a total of four months in jail when he appeared at Galway District Court last week.

A man who had been found drunk, standing next to his car with the keys in the ignition after gardaí received reports that a traffic island had been hit, had his case dismissed last week on the grounds of unlawful detention, no evidence that he had been driving or intended to do so, and that a member of the Gardaí had not informed him that he was trained in the use of an intoxiliser machine.

A six month jail term was imposed on a homeless man who after being found intoxicated, with his shirt off, and verbally abusing Volvo Ocean Race visitors then hurled threats of a sexual nature at a garda.

A chronic alcoholic with 55 previous convictions was sentenced to a total of 21 months for tresspass, possession of a knife and a broken pint glass, and spitting at an American tourist.

A taxi driver charged with 28 counts of sexually assaulting two children is to face trial later this year.

An alcoholic who urinated all over the floor of the female toilets in a coach station and tried to headbutt a shop window while being escorted out, was jailed for eight months at Galway District Court last week.

A 27-year-old man charged with the murder of Claregalway man Kieran Cunningham has been further remanded in custody for the service of a book of evidence.

A Ballybane man involved in over eight burglaries at various homes, many of which were occupied, has been sentenced to a total of 22 months in jail.