Man accused of urinating in Longford garda cell resulting in €170 bill
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A man accused of urinating in a garda cell, resulting in a cleaning bill of €170 has been handed a number of fines, with three months to pay.
William Lawrence, Cloncovid, Co Cavan, appeared before Judge Seamus Hughes at Longford District Court last week where he explained that he was unable to pay the €170 because he’d been in custody for a dangerous driving incident which resulted in a garda being hospitalised with a broken wrist.
“You put me on remand for three weeks and I had to pay €1,000 bail but while I was in custody my money stopped,” Mr Lawrence told Judge Hughes.
A probation report has been ordered in the case of a man charged with the defilement of his nieces in their home following a family funeral in 2018. The man app.
Meet the pensioner taxi driver who has lost his livelihood after it was alleged in court he acted as a drug courier for a criminal gang.
Charles Jimmy Carr (67), who has previously campaigned for marriage equality, now finds himself in the eye of a storm of publicity for an altogether different reason.
The Longford taxi driver was refused the renewal of his taxi licence after gardai alleged he had transported drugs from Dublin to Longford once a week for a period of 10 months.
It was alleged gardai stumbled upon his involvement after he was stopped by officers on July 15, 2020 and a package, estimated to contain €20,000 worth of cannabis and €30,000 worth of cocaine, was discovered on the back seat.
Further sentence for man who robbed Ardagh Post Office
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A man who robbed Ardagh Post Office last year has picked up a further five month concurrent sentence for a series of road traffic offences );
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A former Dublin hurler currently serving a prison sentence for robbing over €13,000 from Ardagh Post Office in October last year, has been sentenced to five months concurrent for a number of dangerous driving charges.
Alan Coyne, Ballinaree Cottage, Edgeworthstown, appeared before Judge Seamus Hughes at Longford District Court last Tuesday, charged with dangerous driving after he took the car of a lady within the post office on October 16, 2019.