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A nightclub doorman who worked six months without proper clearance was fined just €100 but had costs of €2,535 awarded against him in the District Court this week (April 27) in a case that drew some sympathy from the judge.

A judge accepted the arithmetic correction of a solicitor in court this week (April 27) after he miscalculated by a factor of nine the period of restitution required by a former employee trying to pay back over €10,000.

A Dublin man allegedly found with 300 cannabis plants with an estimated value of €120,000 in a rural Offaly housing estate, was remanded on continuing bail until June 22 in Athlone District Court this week (April 27) to await DPP directions, without having to raise a surety.

An Athlone man convicted of threatening to burn down two homes and who assaulted arresting gardaí with a toilet seat before being subdued with pepper spray, was jailed for a total of nine months in the District Court this week (April 13).

An Athlone man who threatened to burn down the home of a shopkeeper, and also that of a garda; and who threw a TV, table, and toilet seat at other gardaí, was remanded on continuing bail in Sligo Circuit Court on Tuesday (April 5) to re-appear before Judge Anthony Kennedy in Athlone Circuit Court on July 26.

A motion calling on Independent TD Michael Lowry to voluntarily resign his membership of Dáil Éireann has been passed without a vote. However, the obstinate North Tipperary TD has said he will continue to serve his constituents. He remains adamant that he is not a criminal, despite the findings of the Moriarty Tribunal.

A Baylough woman found in possession of €870 worth of heroin avoided jail and was fined just €300 when the judge fully accepted she was keeping it to protect her elderly parents from her addicted brother.

A judge held up the immediate payment of legal aid to three unemployed men charged separately with dealing heroin in the District Court this week (March 23), after each of them was found with a value of heroin greater than their weekly dole payment.

Judge Seamus Hughes has sent out a strong warning to people who arrive in his new district to steal.

After a 10-month wait the Department of Justice have finally formally replaced the venerable Judge John Neilan, when Judge Seamus Hughes took to the bench in Athlone District Court on Wednesday (March 9). He had already sat in Longford on Tuesday and completed his initiation in Court District No9 on Thursday when he introduced himself to Mullingar.