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Every individual is entitled to one chance, one opportunity to keep their slate clean, but if they offend again there are no more chances for them.

“She got a chance and I can’t give her another,” was the response of a Judge to a plea for leniency when dealing with a young woman who pleaded guilty to a theft charge.

An Oranmore man who turned up in court with €3,000 in cash to compensate a man who suffered what a judge described as “a terrible gash” to his lip which required hospital treatment and stitches, was told to come back with another €1,000 and a good report from a Restorative Justice programme he was ordered to attend.

A Leaving Cert student who tried to sell cocaine to an undercover Garda had turned his life around in the three intervening years before his case came to court, so deserved a chance and had his case struck out when it came before Galway District Court.

“If drink doesn’t suit you, then you shouldn’t take it,” a judge told a Lettermullen man before him who had abused Gardaí and caused a disturbance in a city restaurant.

THE sword of Damocles hangs over a young city man, as it has to be decided whether an offence committed four months after he received a suspended sentence for theft should be activated following his conviction for a public order offence at Galway District Court this week.

A DEFENDANT who spent three years in a hospital burns unit as a child was severely reprimanded for putting at risk occupants of an Eyre Square Airbnb by damaging fire alarms and then attempting to set alight a security camera while a trespasser in the building.

The Sword of Damocles hangs over a young city man, as it has to be decided whether an offence committed four months after he received a suspended sentence for theft should be activated following his conviction for a public order offence at Galway District Court this week.

A Judge told a woman who went on a thieving spree around the city that it was bad enough that one of her victims was the charity Cope, but she compounded this by stealing a wallet and other items from the Garda station where she was brought following her arrest.

A young man arrested for begging on a Galway street wants to return home to Romania as his short time in this country has proved very difficult for him.