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A woman whom the Superintendent of Castlebar described as a “menace” was before Castlebar District Court on Wednesday where she faced a litany of charges ranging from theft, public order, and road traffic offences.

A man who claimed he had been assaulted twice at a pub became so panicked when his assailant followed him home that he armed himself with a kitchen knife to protect himself, the Galway District Court heard this week.

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 mother of 10 was given a three month suspended sentence, fined €1,000, and banned from the roads for four years for causing a car crash whilst uninsured that hospitalised three people.

A man who threatened Gardai with broken glass and threw a TV at them was jailed for eight months earlier this week (December 2).

A judge was so critical of the business practices of a major insurance firm in the District Court this week (December 16) that he dismissed one of a defendant’s two charges of driving without insurance and refused to ban him from driving despite the defendant not even having a licence.