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A judge has adjourned all cases relating to speed van summonses in his district until after a senior Garda review brought to light by a Prime Time report earlier this week is published.

A man who tried to escape from gardaí by running 10 kms across Offaly bogs in the middle of the night, and still had to be restrained with pepper spray, was jailed for nine months in the District Court this week (November 14).

A man who tried to force a kiss on a female colleague and made a number of inappropriate comments to her, was told in court this week (March 14) he had until the end of the month to come up with €3,000 in compensation for his victim or face a month in prison.

A Dublin man allegedly found with 300 cannabis plants with an estimated value of €120,000 in a rural Offaly housing estate, was remanded on continuing bail until June 22 in Athlone District Court this week (April 27) to await DPP directions, without having to raise a surety.

A driver arrested with three times the legal limit of drink on him, less than a year after gardai had found him with nearly four times the limit in a stationary car drinking cider, was disqualified from driving for six years and given a 10 month jail sentence, suspended for two years.

A man caught with over three times the legal limit of alchohol in his system was jailed last week (March10) and banned from driving for 10 years when it transpired he was stopped whilst still serving a previous ban and whilst uninsured.

A businessman who landed his helicopter on a roof in Irishtown in July last year just to collect a set of keys had his case adjourned until November 24 at the District Court last Tuesday.

A man who flew a helicopter from just the far side of Moate and landed on the roof of a multi-storey car park in the middle of Athlone on a busy Saturday afternoon to get a set of keys cut for it, was put from the skies for 12 months earlier this week (November 24).

FOR THE second year running, the mighty Fight Like Apes will ring in the New Year at the Róisín Dubh - and this time they will have the added joy of also ringing in the new decade - when they headline the venue’s Strange Brew New Year’s Eve 2009 party.

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).