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A man seen by gardai with a mobile phone to his ear whilst driving managed to avoid a conviction in the District Court this week (February 17) after convincing the judge he’d only picked up his non-operational handset off his dashboard when a ringtone went off on the radio.

A cash-strapped man who was caught swapping the price tags on a frying pan was advised by an amused judge to “use the grill next time”.

Pleading ignorance worked wonders for a rather eccentric musician who told a district court judge that he put a bottle of wine in his jacket pocket because he had no basket and then simply forgot about it.