Search Results for 'Circuit Court'

A teenage girl facing jail for her part in her family’s false imprisonment and assault of a middle-aged woman, avoided imprisonment herself in the District Court this week (September 14) after the injured lady spoke up for her and asked the judge to be “very lenient”.

A student who obscenely abused two female gardaí over an injured dog had a €400 fine abated to the Probation Act at his Circuit Court appeal last week, but not before the State solicitor got to wag a chastening finger.

A man jailed for failing to give a sample after attempting to get away from a Garda checkpoint, received some leniency in the Circuit Court last week after the judge accepted his problematic personal circumstances.

An associate of ground rent speculator Noel O’Gara (65) was removed from court this week (July 26) after he accused a judge of running a “kangaroo court” and having “no jurisdiction”.

A woman charged with attempting to steal 17 dresses from a store in Athlone Towncentre will have to wait until September to find out if she is to face a jury trial.

A former chef pursued for nearly €38,000 in the District Court this week (July 1) was ordered to re-pay just €5 a month by a sympathetic judge, after he heard the original debt was just a €3,500 overdraft and a €10,000 personal loan at the time the business collapsed in 2002.

Former Retreat Road resident and Marist past pupil Brian Lenihan, who succumbed to pancreatic cancer last Friday after an 18-month battle while carrying out his duties as Minister for Finance, was buried this week at St David’s cemetery in Kilsallaghan, north county Dublin, amid a tsunami of tributes from a grateful nation.

A man who got his teenage nephew to hold over €1,200 worth of heroin during a Garda raid, will have to wait until July 27 to find out when he must appear in the Circuit Court, after a District Court judge refused jurisdiction in the case this week (June 8).

A man already serving a two year sentence had it extended by nine months in the District Court this week (April 20) after being found guilty of possession with intent to supply €1,200 worth of heroin, despite being found with nearly €3,000 worth.

An Athlone man convicted of threatening to burn down two homes and who assaulted arresting gardaí with a toilet seat before being subdued with pepper spray, was jailed for a total of nine months in the District Court this week (April 13).