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A 17-year-old heroin addict who has been in the care of the State since he was three years old, has received his 21st criminal conviction.

A 17-year-old heroin addict who has been in the care of the State since he was three years old, has received his 21st criminal conviction.

There’s bullet-proof perspex in the custody box at Cloverhill District Courthouse, apparently.

A 17-year-old boy who has been in the care of the HSE since he was three years old, has been remanded in custody for a further three weeks.

Junior and Senior Counsel have been assigned to a man who faces charges of extortion in the Circuit Court.

Leading a “topsy turvy life of excess” yielded one year in prison for a young Kilkenny man in Circuit Court this week. Shane Pouch (28) now living in Stephenstown Lodge Two Mile House Naas Co Kildare was before Judge Olive Buttimer on 12 counts of deception dating from June 14, 2007 to October 5, 2007. The court heard that during this period of time, Mr Pouch purported to be a businessman with a penchant for luxury about to run a restaurant in Kilkenny city.

A Kilkenny Circuit Court jury returned a unanimous guilty verdict this week in what was described as “a most unusual dangerous driving case”.

Charges of threatening officers from the Criminal Assets Bureau were put to Christy ‘Ditsy’ Nevin when he appeared at Mullingar District Court with more than 60 others in relation to the Dalton Park riot last July.

A man who offered to fight a garda for the keys of the lorry in which he had just been stopped without a licence, insurance, NCT, tachograph or tax for the previous four years, had his jail sentence suspended in the appeal court this week (May 19), but had the rest of his District Court sentence upheld.

One of Athlone’s most prolific burglars, jailed for two years on January 30, had his sentence reduced this week (May 19) to eight months with the last two suspended after a judge accepted his efforts at rehabilitation were genuine.