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A man who was seen, followed, reported, and arrested with a stolen silage grab in his vehicle, but who insisted on still pleading not guilty at 11 appearances in court, was jailed for five months this week (November 13).

An unemployed man whose High Court-ordered retrial required a new judge, a barrister, two solicitors and 14 gardaí to spend the day in court, was eventually sentenced to nine months in jail in the District Court this week (April 11).

A man who tried to force a kiss on a female colleague and made a number of inappropriate comments to her, was told in court this week (March 14) he had until the end of the month to come up with €3,000 in compensation for his victim or face a month in prison.

Judge Seamus Hughes was horrified to hear that a 16-year-old boy drinks up to 10 pints on a night out.

A well-known Shannonbridge publican was fined a total of €1,250 in the Athlone District Court this week (February 16), after being found guilty of being open after hours on two occasions, including the night the local club were on RTE’s Celebrity Bainisteoir.

A man pleading guilty to “the highest reading I have ever seen” according to the judge in the District Court this week (October 7), will have to wait until January to see if he is to get a jail sentence or a community service order to accompany a six-year driving ban.

A driver arrested with three times the legal limit of drink on him, less than a year after gardai had found him with nearly four times the limit in a stationary car drinking cider, was disqualified from driving for six years and given a 10 month jail sentence, suspended for two years.

A man arrested with an axe at a row outside a pub was given 13 months in jail but had his sentence postponed until October “to see how you've improved”.

A man who put his ex-partner in fear for her life when he breached a safety order to tell her he'd cut her throat, was jailed for 11 months in the District Court this week (May 27).