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There was dignified chaos at the opening day of this term’s sitting of Mullingar Circuit Court when barristers, solicitors, and defendants were unable to appear on Tuesday (November 30) because of the weather.

A burglar who was disturbed by the owners whilst on their property, received a six month suspended sentence in the District Court this week (December 1).

A man convicted of stealing another man’s wallet after threatening him with a can of unopened cider, was jailed this week (November 3) for eight months after he failed to provide the €900 in compensation he was told earlier this year was the only thing that would save him from a prison sentence.

A man alleged to have bitten part of another man’s ear off during a row, had his case adjourned to January to await a book of evidence and to await further direction from the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) on a subsequent criminal damage charge.

The woman charged in connection with the unlawful death of Lillian (Lily) Scanlon at her home in Valley Court, Athlone over two years ago, was served with a book of evidence in the District Court this week (October 13) and given a date for trial on November 30.

A man with 63 previous convictions who fought with a garda after being apprehended for joyriding around the Marist College in July, avoided any addition to his present sentence after the court heard how he had just started the Leaving Cert in prison.

A local man who is pleading not guilty to charges of threatening to kill the student sister of Limerick gangland victim Roy Collins because he would allegedly “get good money from Wayne Dundon”, was remanded on continuing bail in Athlone District Court this week (September 22) until November 10 on related theft and menacing charges.

A husband and wife were committed for trial to the Circuit Court on charges of violent affray for the second time this year, after the State handed them each another book of evidence in the District Court this week (September 15).

A man with an “appalling record” of drunken behaviour was lucky to avoid jail time after his two month sentence was suspended for a year in the District Court this week (September 8).

A woman who couldn’t lift her head from the bench beside her solicitor, and had to dash from court twice to be sick during her trial for theft this week (September 8), was still sentenced to a further three months in jail.