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"I’ve heard of people rushing to get to a funeral but why were you speeding coming from one?" a Judge asked a woman who was clocked doing 168kph on the M6.

Even a minor criminal conviction could have serious consequences for anyone hoping to register as a doctor, a Judge told Loughrea District Court this week.

A Galway farmer has pleaded guilty to the sexual assault of a then 16-year-old girl on board an Aer Lingus flight bound for Boston.

“I don’t want to throw my client’s spouse under a bus” a defence solicitor told Judge James Faughnan at Tuam District Court, to which the Judge responded “but you just have”.

A man pleading guilty to possession for sale or supply of drugs to the value of €60,000 was told he would either have to abide by very stringent curfew conditions or be remanded in custody until his sentencing date.

A motorist pleaded that he couldn’t have been speeding when a GoSave detection van registered him travelling over the 50kph limit in Kilkerrin village.

A Clarenbridge-based demolition contractor with a gambling addiction pleaded guilty to possession of drugs for sale or supply under Section 15A of the Control of Drugs Act which carries a mandatory minimum sentence of ten years unless exceptional circumstances apply. He also pleaded guilty to a money-laundering charge.

AN ARSONIST who firebombed the wrong house and car in Ballybane pleaded guilty to the offences and the reckless endangerment of life when he appeared before Galway Circuit Criminal Court.

A Judge asked if a driver was “on Red Bull” when he was told that the defendant was detected driving at 196kph on the motorway, where the maximum speed limit is 120kph.

Former Galway East TD Colm Keaveney appeared before Tuam District Court on Tuesday for his sentencing hearing, where Judge James Faughnan imposed 220 hours of Community Service in lieu of a four-month prison sentence.