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A young man with some learning difficulties and known to the system, who shouted in court that he’d stab a garda, then punched one and spat in the face of another, was released on a multi-conditional bail from the District Court last week (December 16).

A judge was left with no alternative but to jail a man with an intellectual disability for nearly two years after his behaviour escalated to aggravated trespass and carrying a knife.

A District Court judge has criticised the HSE and the Departments of Health, Education, and Justice over the lack of secure places outside the prison system for offenders with intellectual disabilities.

A Westmeath man will appear before the Circuit Court following Judge Eamon O’Brien’s decision not to accept jurisdiction in the District Court for an assault offence.