Search Results for 'Circuit Court'

by Martina Nee

The Circuit Court judge presiding over Athlone and Mullingar has indicated he will have little patience for accused persons who leave it until the last minute to plead guilty.

A Mullingar man has successfully appealed a conviction for two counts of indecency at Mullingar Swimming Pool.

Three young people have been sent forward for trial for the manslaughter of Andrew Dolan in Mullingar.

A man who tried to extort €50,000 from his family by faking his own Tiger kidnap after he lost a carload of drugs, was sentenced to five years in prison in the Circuit Court in Athlone this week (December 6).

A man who admitted having heroin worth €8,104 to deal has been given a four year suspended jail sentence.

A Circuit Court judge has decided not to impose the mandatory 10 year sentence on a man and woman who pleaded guilty to having more than €13,000 cannabis for sale or supply.

A former Meath county footballer charged with 26 offences in Moate, Kinnegad, Kells, and Ballyjamesduff was remanded on continuing bail until December 14 in the District Court this week (October 26) for a probation report after he was warned he could face up to two years in jail.

Judge Conal Gibbons told a defendant in Ballyhaunis District Court this week that he found his story completely unbelievable before he sentenced him to nine months detention. John Reardon, 93 Kilfenora Road, Kimmage, Dublin 12, and James Doyle, 14 Dervish Road, Kimmage, Dublin 12, were both in court after gardaí found them in a stolen car in a petrol station forecourt outside Ballyhaunis on March 30 this year. The car in question was a 2005 Audi A4 which had been stolen in Dublin on March 3, 2011 and had a false 2007 number plate.

A man has appeared before Mullingar District Court charged with 115 counts of rape, sexual assault, and indecent assault.