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A man who has more than 60 convictions, mainly for being drunk and being a danger to himself around the city, was given bail at the District Court on Monday on condition he remain in an intoxicant-free state.

GARDAI have better things to do than to go about picking drunks up from the street, was the reaction of a Judge when a Court regular once again appeared before Galway District Court on public order charges.

A solicitor told a Court that his chronic alcoholic client, who had 52 previous convictions for public order offences, usually for being drunk in public, was a “nuisance but not a menace”.

“You are making a promise on oath, and breaching this promise will have very serious consequences,” a judge warned a defendant who has come before her repeatedly for being drunk and a danger to himself and the public around the streets of Galway.