Search Results for 'Circuit Court'

“Take your business up to Judge Kennedy in the Circuit Court and see what he has to say about it,” said Judge Neilan as he revoked a community service order and sentenced a man to five months imprisonment.

A Mullingar man has been given a one month prison sentence for public order offences.

A burglar who offered non-human urine in an effort to pass a prison drug test had the last three months of a 22-month sentence suspended in the Circuit Court this week (July 21).

A man who claimed he stole a 42'' TV in order to fund his childrens' birthdays, had his 11-month sentence suspended in the Circuit Court this week (July 21).

A man who nearly knocked down a couple of gardai two and a half years ago when he drove stoned through a checkpoint in the early hours, had his 10-month sentence suspended in the Circuit Court earlier this week (July 21).

An elderly farmer who drove a digger at neighbours and Gardai, dug up a road and knocked down an eircom pole on account of a 25-year land dispute, was partially successful in the Circuit Court this week (July 21) when he had a decision on his 15-year driving ban postponed until next June.

A man given 22 months in jail for defrauding the State out of €3,400 by signing for his dead brother's dole, had his sentence suspended last week (July 21) when he offered restitution and said he wanted to change for his four-year-old daughter.

A man with 150 previous convictions over the last 27 years due to his alcoholism, told a judge “I want to die” and asked for the electric chair or gallows before being told they “had long been taken from the statute books”, in the District Court this week (September 9).

A second attempt at bail by one of the most prolific burglars in Athlone failed again this week (October 14), when the judge heard how, on two recent attempts to arrest him, he absconded out of back windows, before he was finally apprehended last week.

A man who terrorised his partner and broke a window in her apartment, as well as stealing a laptop in an unrelated burglary, was heavily criticised by the judge for his behaviour and will now have to go to the Circuit Court in December to see if a two month suspended jail sentence issued last year will be re-activated.