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A tattooist who took part in a punishment beating along with other masked members of a now disbanded biker gang has been given a five year sentence suspended on strict conditions and ordered to pay a further €6,375.

A former bike repair business owner has been left too terrified to return to Galway after masked members of a biker gang entered his premises to deliver a ‘punishment beating’ for an unpaid loan using pepper spray and iron bars to inflict injuries including a number of cuts and broken limbs.

A Galway woman who after receiving a sentence at Galway District Court last year lashed out at gardai assaulting and threatening to kill a number of officers, even resorting to biting one garda breaking his skin, was sentenced to serve a total of eight months in jail as well as receiving a six months suspended sentence with strict conditions that she address her alcohol problems.

Gardaí have appealed to the public for information following a number of burglaries in the city.

A Ballinfoyle man who denied kicking a woman in the chest and smashed a tyre into the windscreen of a car was jailed for 19 months and disqualified for eight years when he appeared at Galway District Court last Monday.

A beggar who wilfully obstructed an elderly wheel-chair bound man and then abused a garda, calling him a “piece of s**t”, received a five month suspended sentence at the Galway District Court this week.