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A judge has adjourned all cases relating to speed van summonses in his district until after a senior Garda review brought to light by a Prime Time report earlier this week is published.

A youth who set fire to his sister’s kitchen so the council would give her a new one, and who spat a mouthful of blood into a social worker’s face, got another final chance in court this week (April 2).

A judge has adjourned all cases relating to speed van summonses in his district until after a senior Garda review brought to light by a Prime Time report earlier this week is published.

The manager of the HSE in the Midlands has been summoned to court to explain what can be done for an offender with psychiatric issues who will have spent more than nine weeks in custody because health services have no suitable facility for him.

A man who was part of a gang who followed an elderly woman after she left a supermarket has been jailed for five months.

A youth from “an incredibly dysfunctional family background” was fined a total of €400 this week after failing to attend for 170 hours of community service.

Two unmanned rail crossings in Mayo are the most dangerous in the country, recording between them more than 40 per cent of all the serious ‘near misses’ between trains and road users nationally.

Judge Seamus Hughes said he has less tolerance for publicans in busy pubs who sell alcohol to minors.

A former addict from Limerick, appearing in court in Athlone on a three-year-old warrant, avoided a jail sentence this week (March 12) because of rehabilitative efforts he has made in four other towns in the interim.

A teenager pleading guilty to four counts of theft was offered a six-month reprieve in court this week (March 12), but warned he would go to jail “if he stole as much as a chicken sandwich” in the meantime.