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The heart-rending tale of a prospective bridegroom being separated from his fiancée by what he regarded as over-onerous bail conditions being imposed on him by Gardaí standing in the path of him and wedding bliss took another turn at Ballinasloe District Court.

A man who is being held in custody following an alleged serious assault on his partner was told he had bail but couldn’t take it up because he hadn’t provided a verifiable address, which was part of his bail conditions.

A young man accused of a serious assault on a member of his family was told that Gardaí could not accept the address he provided — of what was described as a “drop-in house” in Tuam — as part of his bail application.

THE fact that a Garda lost consciousness following an alleged punch to the face was a major cause of concern when it came to deciding jurisdiction, a Judge told Galway District Court.

AN Arabic interpreter was employed to explain the proceedings of Galway District Court to a man accused of false imprisonment and serious assault, when he appeared before Judge Fiona Lydon via video-link from prison at Monday’s (October 5) sitting of the Court.

A Malawian man with multiple convictions arising from his public drunkenness, who was once described by his solicitor, John Martin, as a “nuisance but not a menace” will no longer be either a nuisance or a familiar sight to the Gardaí and the citizens of Galway, as he is being deported home.

There was some confusion and merriment over the reasons for a no-show at Ballinasloe District Court, with the Judge quipping “there could be a song in that.”

A JUDGE dealing with the case of a man accused of murdering his mother refused to make his next appearance before Galway District Court peremptory against the State, but she noted the concerns of his defence team that he was now five months in custody and still had not been served with a Book of Evidence.

For generations, the Irish rental market was not built by funds. It was built by ordinary people: the teacher who kept the first house after moving, the farmer who bought a flat in town, the couple whose one rental property was their pension.

“Are you a boy-racer or a car enthusiast?” a judge asked a young man brought before him on a charge of having an illegal exhaust on his car. The defendant assured him he was an enthusiast.