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Two men have received jail sentences in a Castlebar court for crashing a stolen car and then abusing hospital staff while they were being treated at the A&E department at Mayo General Hospital.

A Westport man pleaded guilty at Ballina District Court this week to being a passenger in a stolen car.

Gardaí in Mayo are today continuing to investigate a spate serious crimes which occurred during the week — including an attempted armed robbery from a filling station in Claremorris, an aggravated burglary from a house in Killasser, and a stabbing in Castlebar.

A man who has a 99 year driving disqualification was before Castlebar District Court this week for the unauthorised taking of a car and driving while disqualified.

A 25-year-old Limerick man charged with driving a stolen car dangerously is now at large having escaped from custody during transportation, the Galway District Court heard this week.

A 24-year-old Ballybane man who led gardai on a high speed chase in a stolen car while drink driving and disqualified, before travelling the wrong way on a roundabout and crashing, has been sentenced to 15 months in jail and disqualified from driving for 10 years.

A former Meath county footballer charged with 26 offences in Moate, Kinnegad, Kells, and Ballyjamesduff was remanded on continuing bail until December 14 in the District Court this week (October 26) for a probation report after he was warned he could face up to two years in jail.

A car which was suspiciously abandoned on a road near a house which had been broken into led to the appearance before Ballina District Court of a Dublin man.

Judge Conal Gibbons told a defendant in Ballyhaunis District Court this week that he found his story completely unbelievable before he sentenced him to nine months detention. John Reardon, 93 Kilfenora Road, Kimmage, Dublin 12, and James Doyle, 14 Dervish Road, Kimmage, Dublin 12, were both in court after gardaí found them in a stolen car in a petrol station forecourt outside Ballyhaunis on March 30 this year. The car in question was a 2005 Audi A4 which had been stolen in Dublin on March 3, 2011 and had a false 2007 number plate.

A teenager, described in court has someone who had “slipped through the system”, pleaded guilty to offences which include burglary and the theft of a car and has been further remanded into custody for possible sentencing.