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An Athlone couple had a seven year battle with a builder formally resolved in the Circuit Court this week (December 7), when a judge awarded them over €33,000 in lieu of shoddy work at their home.

A Ballymore woman who worked in Mullingar and crashed her car in Loughnavalley with traces of tranquillizers and cannabis in her system whilst trying to get home in the early hours, was banned from driving for four years in the Circuit Court in Athlone this week (December 7).

A lorry driver who spent six and a half hours in the pub with his wife after watching the Munster-Leinster Heineken Cup semi-final last year, and was then arrested after he chose to drive less than a kilometre to his house because it was raining, had his two year and one day District Court driving ban upheld in the Circuit Court in Athlone this week (December 8).

A man who used a horse whip on his wife, stabbed her in the head with a set of keys, swung a phone charger at her head, and threatened to kill a woman who gave her refuge, failed in his appeal against the severity of a two year prison sentence in the Circuit Court this week (December 7).

The mother of a four-year-old boy killed when a disqualified driver ploughed into him on a Westmeath road says she is horrified his four month prison sentence has been remitted.

A 10 year sentence was handed down to a “very articulate and clever criminal” whose local knowledge was “central” to a raid on the home of a well known Westmeath businessman.

A Mullingar woman is to be tried in the Circuit Court after she was charged with stealing more than €50,000.

An Athlone man pleading not guilty to two charges of threatening to kill a female AIT student and her boyfriend was handed his book of evidence in the District Court this week (November 10) and ordered to face trial in the Mullingar Circuit Court, sitting in Tullamore, on November 30.

Three women who pleaded guilty this week to running a brothel, avoided jail and even got a lift home from the Gardai, after a judge felt that having to go onto a sex offenders register on foot of conviction was too severe a consequence for the crime before him.

A man alleged to have bitten part of another man’s ear off during a row, had his case adjourned to January to await a book of evidence and to await further direction from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) on a subsequent criminal damage charge.