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Last week saw the Garda engaged in one of their periodic road safety ‘blitzes’, this time concentrating on poor maintenance and cars with defective lights.

Last week saw the Garda engaged in one of their periodic road safety ‘blitzes’, this time concentrating on poor maintenance and cars with defective lights.

A jury has heard how a man who had got behind on his debts to drug suppliers was abducted by two men and taken to a country laneway shed where he was subjected to the “most horrific” assault for more than an hour.

A young horse, left in severe distress as a head collar had embedded itself into its face leaving a deep wound, had bolted from the land owned by a farmer who had been unable to give a closer inspection, the Galway District Court heard this week.

A man wanted by Gardai for his alleged involvement in the Ward-Joyce feud which flared outside the courthouse last week and escalated to see two men assaulted at Creggan on the old Dublin road, was given a highly conditional bail, contrary to Garda opinion, in the District Court this week (December 1).

A young Mayo student, who claimed that he had been attacked and left fearing for his life during a series of blows from Galway gardai, has succeeded in contesting the assault charge against him. However, he was convicted and fined a total of €800 this week for the serious obstruction of a garda and being intoxicated and for being extremely abusive.

A man, with 51 previous convictions, was found covered in blood by gardai who rushed to the scene after receiving a call from his frightened mother, the Galway District Court heard this week.

A seven month sentence was imposed on a woman who put a garda’s health in jeopardy when she bit down hard into his arm, breaking the skin, and risking possible cross contamination of a serious medical condition.

A young offender who chose to stop taking his hyperactivity medicine, was warned in court this week (March 3) that despite his age, room could be found in Oberstown Boys’ Centre if he continued to behave in this fashion.

Gardaí in the case of an Offaly man accused of causing the death of a Carlow man, were told they needed to preserve evidence and notify concerned parties before disposing of anything relating to a case.