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A visit to the city’s Christmas market proved costly for a man who had to be arrested for his own safety and the safety of the public.

A motorist was told he was lucky to be getting a three-year driving ban instead of what might have been six years for his second drunk driving offence.

A mother of three was convicted of crashing into a parked car in a hotel car park and doing damage to the tune of €3,000 before fleeing the scene when her case came before Judge James Faughnan at Tuam District Court.

A woman handed over €10,000 in cash at Galway District Court on Monday as bail for her son, and produced evidence that she had a further €10,000 in her account to meet his bail set by the High Court at €20,000.

A MAN described by a Judge as a bully for abusing and threatening a Council Community Warden was given a five-month prison sentence, suspended for two years on strict behavioural conditions, when his case came before Judge Vincent Deane at a special sitting of Tuam District Court.

A defendant described by an arresting Garda “as a very nice young fellow” appeared before a special sitting of Tuam District Court on a charge of drunk driving.

A professional driver on his way home from a funeral turned his car into a driveway and hid in the bushes when he spotted a Garda checkpoint ahead of him.

A man who was put off the road for driving without insurance was caught driving once again by Gardaí only five months later, Judge James Faughnan observed when the second case came before him at Tuam District Court.

A man who has more than 60 convictions, mainly for being drunk and being a danger to himself around the city, was given bail at the District Court on Monday on condition he remain in an intoxicant-free state.

A judge asked why a tradesman was not working when his case came before Tuam District Court. Judge James Faughnan was told the father of six before him was a plasterer by trade, but was not currently working.