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A 14-year-old Athlone boy from “a very difficult background” who was due to return to school yesterday (September 2) was remanded to the custody of a secure unit in Co Dublin this week, after the Welfare and Probation Service (WPS) refused to support his bail application.

Judge Conal Gibbons, convicted and fined a youth who stole €100 from a nun in Ballina District Court this week. The previous week Judge Gibbons had remanded the youth in St Patrick’s Institution for a week, so he could hear from the probation service which had been working with the youth previously.

A handbag thief, accused by the judge of “stringing along the probation service” and of showing “hostility” to its staff, was given one further remand in the District Court last week (March 10) to see if any improvement could yet be made in her behaviour.

Two men who took a mad notion to travel around Carlow in a stolen car while drunk, found themselves before Judge William Harnett at Carlow District Court this week. Athy man Jamie Devereux (21) and Castledermot man Ger Perse (20) were before the court on charges relating to an incident on the Athy Road on July 21, 2008.

An 18 year-old man admitted impersonating a member of An Garda Síochana at Kilkenny Court this week.

The case of a man who pleaded guilty to the unlawful possession of cocaine with a street value of €2,100 has been adjourned.

Described as being “at large” for two years, a defendant was told that his lack of cooperation with the probation service meant a remand back to custody until the next sitting of Carlow Circuit Court.

Stealing six bottles of Cognac landed a mother of two in Carlow District court this week.

A Ballinasloe-native writer faces jail next month unless he seeks help and accepts that sexually assaulting a 15-year-old boy was wrong.