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A JUDGE refused to hear an alleged animal cruelty case after viewing photographs of the animals in question presented by the prosecution when the matter came before Ballinasloe District Court.

A MAN who racially abused an ethnic British security manager in a Tuam store was ordered to pay his victim €500 in compensation or face three months in prison.

Failure to pay a fixed charge speeding fine will cost a Ballinasloe man €1,000, a judge warned him when his case came before the local District Court.

Four men are to stand trial at the nonjury Special Criminal Court charged in connection with a plot to carry out a terrorist attack on a mosque in Galway last November.

A young man who filmed an intimate act he was engaging in with a woman on Snapchat, and then shared it on Snapchat, tried to apologise to his victim on Snapchat, his solicitor told Galway Court. He added that his client got no response.

A JUDGE told an irate man who just had his case dismissed that he needed to be sure if he wanted to appeal his dismissal to a higher court.

District Court convictions for drug-related offences fell by 10 per cent last year in Galway city.

A CITY-centre shopkeeper who was threatened with being “bottled” by a man who had previously been barred from the shop, did not wish to make a victim-impact statement but asked that the habitual criminal be permanently barred from the shop when the case came before the local District Court.

A YOUNG man enjoying summer festivities in the city had a Garda sniffer dog put an end to the party when it detected cocaine on his person.

A JUDGE in the District Court has refused jurisdiction in the case brought against a Headford man who is charged with cultivating cannabis plants in his home.