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A man charged with assaulting his mother at her Ballybrit home had the charge against him raised to murder when he appeared in court in Galway on Wednesday morning.

Transition Year can get a bad rap. Just ask around and you'll hear it dismissed as 'the doss year'. But for students who actually use it to their benefit, TY can be one of the most formative years of secondary school.

AS an antidote for the everyday blues (apart from the music of BB King, that is) a visit to your District Court to see justice being administered in your name might just do the trick. I emphasise ‘your’ as some need reminding it actually is your Court and justice is carried out, and sometimes otherwise, in your name. It’s not the Judge’s Court, although some labour under the delusion it is; they simply have the privilege of acting on our behalf. Ditto for lawyers, Gardaí and even representatives of the fourth estate.

A woman who appeared before Tuam District Court with 38 previous convictions picked up two more while there, bringing her record to 40.

A judge told a young man with a series of driving convictions that the “era of bringing crocks onto the roads was gone” and he should be disqualifying him from driving for a lengthy period for his behaviour.

“IN England, justice is open to all—like the Ritz Hotel.” This pithy quote, attributed to Victorian-era judge Sir James Mathew, was made to highlight the fact that the law and the Ritz were open to all in theory but, in practice, only the rich could afford them. The quote, often misattributed to Mathew’s compatriot George Bernard Shaw, seems appropriate as the current controversy surrounding our criminal legal aid system – which saw criminal practitioners strike in Tuam Court last Tuesday – rolls on.

A man who walked out of hospital in the middle of treatment had his patient ID wrist band still on when an ambulance crew came to pick him up after he was found in a paralytic condition some hours later.

“You can’t be behaving like that in public. Do it in your own home if you want,” was the admonishment issued to a 56-year-old Loughrea man when he appeared before the local court on public order charges.

A judge told a young man with a series of driving convictions that the “era of bringing crocks onto the roads was gone” and he should be disqualifying him from driving for a lengthy period for his behaviour.

A young mother who grabbed her victim by her ponytail on Busker Brown’s dance floor and bit her twice in the face was asked by a Judge if she would like something like this to happen when her children were socialising in the city when they were older.