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A JUDGE has called on the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) to take on the motor insurance industry and tackle the small print that is leading to so many motorists driving about under the false impression that they are insured.

A DEFENDANT asked if curfew conditions as part of his bail be dropped, as he was afraid his landlord at the Red Gap might evict him if any more Guards with flashing blue lights arrived out to check on whether he is at home or not.

A PLEA was made to a Judge not to impose the normal driving ban on a young man guilty of driving without insurance on a quad bike, on the grounds that such a ban might impact on his work driving machinery in an Australian mine.

A plumber who came to Garda attention when he turned away from a checkpoint was fined when he appeared before Tuam District Court.

A FORMER qualified driving instructor has to re-sit his driving test, Tuam District Court heard in an unusual case which came before Judge James Faughnan.

A young apprentice electrician was put off the road for a year and fined when convicted of driving with cocaine in his system.

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.

THE proprietor of a Tuam discount shop was fined €2,000 and ordered to make a €2,500 payment to an animal welfare charity after he pleaded guilty to selling illegal glue traps in his Shop Street premises.

“I know now where Phoenix magazine got their ‘Bog Cuttings’ title from” a Judge quipped when a solicitor produced two sods of turf as evidence in a case involving a dispute over the quality of turf sold and a refusal to pay for it.

“Whyaren’t you working with the country at full employment?” a judge asked a troubled young man and put his case back for a month, warning him that he had better have a job when he returned to court.