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A Clare man who was highly abusive and insulting to gardai and hospital staff and had to be held down to be treated in A&E was described in court as a “nuisance and a menace”.

A small-time drug dealer who had been arrested during Operation Scarf, a surveillance operation carried out last year by members of the National Drugs Unit, had the last nine months of a 21 month sentence suspended at Galway Circuit Appeals Court last Tuesday.

Fraudsters making money out of providing false documents to foreigners so they can deceive Social Welfare offices must be stopped, according to a Circuit Court judge when he was told that there had been six such cases in Galway this year alone.

Up to 200 “boy racers” were travelling around Galway city last August in convoys and gathering in car parks to show off their skills and their wanton disregard for their safety and the safety of others.

A reformed drug dealer, who had sold more than €200 worth of narcotics to undercover gardai during Operation Scarf, succeeded in having his 18 month prison sentence suspended at Galway Circuit Appeals Court last week.

Up to 200 “boy racers” were travelling around Galway city last August in convoys and gathering in car parks to show off their skills and their wanton disregard for their safety and the safety of others and there was a Mayo man at the centre of them, a court heard this week.

A single mother who had been sentenced to five months in jail for assaulting a woman just because she was not satisfied with curtain alterations succeeded in having the sentence suspended at the Galway Circuit Appeals Court last Tuesday.

Pressure led to a fairground owner using his vehicle “as a weapon” to imidate a competitor and make threats, the Galway Circuit Appeals Court heard this week.