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A man who fled to the UK in 2009 after being caught with €350,000 worth of various drugs avoided a jail term in the Dublin Circuit Criminal Court yesterday, May 22.

A Chinese man who delivered food and supplies to cannabis grow houses around the country has avoided jail on the understanding that he will be deported.

A Galway man has asked to be jailed so he can get treatment, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard.

In April 1980, I interviewed Mrs Sarah Lynskey from Bridge Street, on her 100th birthday, for this column. In the course of our conversation, she told me her earliest memory was of “kneeling on the Salmon Weir Bridge with my mother and a lot of Claddagh women praying. I know they were Claddagh women because I can still see the triangles of shawl as they knelt on the bridge. We were praying for a fellow, they were going to hang him the next day. Joyce was his name”. She was talking about Myles Joyce, an innocent man who was to be hanged along with two others for the Maamtrasna murders.

The case of a 28-year-old man accused of falsely imprisoning a person at a city centre restaurant has been further adjourned to the November sittings of Galway Circuit Criminal Court.

A Loughrea man who violently sexually assaulted a nurse in a laneway causing her severe head injuries has received a 10-year prison sentence, with three years suspended, and the sentence backdated almost two years to the date of the man’s arrest.

A man who violently sexually assaulted a nurse as she walked home at Bohermore last October, will today (Thursday) be sentenced at the Central Criminal Court.

The trial of two Galway men accused of directing a criminal organisation yesterday heard a glossary of slang allegedly used by the men on surveillance tapes.

A man has been sentenced to nine years for assaulting and threatening to kill a 97-year-old woman in her home.

A Kilkenny roofer who transported cocaine valued at more than €200,000 in order to repay a drugs debt has been given a seven year suspended sentence.