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A WOMAN who has appointed herself as custodian of Tuam’s traffic by-laws was brought before the local District Court this week charged with engaging in threatening and abusive behaviour towards a member of the public.

A MAN who was put off the road for ten years in 2019 for repeatedly driving without insurance is attempting to get his licence back early, but this application is being strenuously opposed by the Gardaí.

A motorist was told he was lucky to be getting a three-year driving ban instead of what might have been six years for his second drunk driving offence.

A man who was put off the road for driving without insurance was caught driving once again by Gardaí only five months later, Judge James Faughnan observed when the second case came before him at Tuam District Court.

A slash hook found in the boot of a young man’s car was for clearing hedges in a field where he kept ponies, he told Gardaí.

A motorist pleaded that he couldn’t have been speeding when a GoSave detection van registered him travelling over the 50kph limit in Kilkerrin village.

A Judge asked if a driver was “on Red Bull” when he was told that the defendant was detected driving at 196kph on the motorway, where the maximum speed limit is 120kph.

Schoolchildren in Kinvara will take to the streets at 12 noon tomorrow (Thursday) to highlight the urgent need for safe road crossings in the village.

A man asked to hand in his driving licence at Ballinasloe District Court so the registrar could note details for the imposition of five penalty points expressed alarm as he thought his licence was being taken from him.

A young woman who had already been given a chance when she escaped being put off the road for driving without insurance did not learn her lesson, and found herself before Ballinasloe District Court on a similar charge.