Search Results for 'Martin Stokes'
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€1,000 trip from prison to answer €40 theft
A man was transported from prison in Dublin to Castlebar District Court, at what Judge Mary Devins estimated to be a cost of up to €1,000 to the State, to answer a theft charge relating to goods valued at €40 this week.
“Neanderthal” saved from jail by wedding date
A judge alluded to the Travelling community as “Neanderthal men” in a case of neighbour intimidation heard in the District Court this week (September 5).
Judge hopes to finalise “turf” case by end of September
A judge welcomed an update in court this week (July 20) on an “unorthodox sentencing” of his, but feared this particular case “will be imprinted on my brain until I retire”.
Turf rather than time - charity bog option offered
The man whose conviction for farmyard theft in March led to a judge praising the Mayo farmer who shot dead a Traveller trespasser, avoided jail in the District Court this week (June 22) after his father promised the defendant would deliver a “lorryload of turf” to St Vincent de Paul as a community service alternative.
‘Intentional reckless, dangerous driving’ by Reek pilgrim
A 19-year-old man who, while on his way to Westport to celebrate Reek Sunday drove in an “intentional reckless, dangerous manner”, was before Judge Aeneas McCarthy at Ballina District Court on Wednesday.