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A man who was so drunk that his arresting gardaí couldn’t make out what he was trying to shout at them, was given 100 hours of community service in lieu of three months in prison this week (April 10).

A Galway man who stole two purses from a back office of a shop on Christmas Eve was handed a 12 month prison sentence with the last three months suspended in Castlebar District Court on Tuesday this week. Martin McDonagh, of 64 Corrib Park, Newcastle, Co Galway pleaded guilty to the charges in court. The court was told that McDonagh went into the back room of Daly’s Newsagent at the Tesco shopping centre in Claremorris on December 24 2011 at 2.35pm and stole two purses from two handbags from the room. The gardai were called and Garda Brandley attended the scene and was shown CCTV footage which clearly showed McDonagh taking the purses from the handbags and putting them inside his trousers and making his exit from the shop.

A man who kicked his wife after a Valentine’s night out and was so violent that he had to be pepper sprayed by gardai has been ordered to carry out 140 hours of community service or face four months in jail.

A man without a real job, but who felt he could tell gardaí to “get a real job”, avoided jail in the District Court this week (September 21) for possession of a knife and the theft of some foodstuffs, after he was ordered to do 240 hours community service in lieu of a prison sentence.

A man who assaulted three gardaí after being arrested for urinating in the street avoided a jail sentence in the District Court this week (September 7) because of a favourable probation report, but will still have to do 150 hours of community service.

A youth who claimed six honours in his Junior Cert in response to a judge’s suggestion that his schooling “was very limited” after he’d heard how the defendant had threatened to kill his father with a cheese knife, was ordered to produce this certificate in court next week.

HE HAS a CBE for services to poetry, an Ivor Novello Award for his songlyrics, scripted award-winning documentaries, penned plays, novels, and memoirs, and, to round it all off, has developed a recent sideline performing with a rock group.

Drink drivers topped the list of offenders at the recent sitting of Mullingar District Court with a total of 10 people prosecuted for taking to the road under the influence.

A teenager arrested for waving a large dagger at others during a drunken disturbance in Willow Park had his sentencing adjourned until March in order that the Welfare and Probation Service (WPS) prepare an updated report on his situation.

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.