A judge today accused a pensioner of using his hard of hearing condition to avoid sentencing for sexually assaulting a man in his 80s on a bus.

A judge has said the State agency responsible for wildlife is not doing enough to kill sufficient numbers of deer resulting in motorists facing the danger of the animals landing on their car bonnets.

A judge has banned a 42-year-old mother of 10 from every pub in the north Clare town of Ennistymon for 12 months.

A judge yesterday accused radio talk show hosts of whipping up public opinion about courts not dealing with repeat burglary offenders.

Champions in 2015, Clonmel Commercials had some anxious moments before getting the better of Cahir 0-21 to 3-8 in the Tipperary SFC first round at New Inn.

A judge said yesterday that “there is nothing as appalling as a liar” after ruling that a speeding motorist perjured himself in the witness box.

A judge has told a chronic alcoholic that he better join the Pioneers — otherwise he will be sent to jail next week.

A man exposed his penis to a “shocked and upset” 19-year-old McDonald’s worker after ordering a double sausage breakfast meal from her.

A Done Deal “scam artist” who duped six victims to part with €2,400, including one man to pay €160 for two fictitious Adele tickets, has been jailed for one year.

A deaf victim of DoneDeal fraudster Patrick Matthews has been left “very hurt and angry” by his former flatmate’s deception.

A young man accused of uploading the Facebook profile pictures of 19 girls to a pornographic site has appeared in court for the second time.

A fraudster yesterday appeared in court in connection with ripping off 25 individuals who paid over monies after seeing ads on the DoneDeal.ie website for holiday homes and a One Direction ticket.

A Co Clare pensioner has been convicted of assault in a row with his neighbour over the pensioner piling horse manure on a wall that divides the two men’s properties.

A man told his ‘hysterical’ 13-year-old nephew after he had pummelled the boy’s father he was sorry that he had to see it, “but the fat pig bastard had it coming to him”.

A district court judge yesterday ruled that Go Safe employees don’t have the required authority to help prosecute speeding cases in the district court.

A judge who said he does not like presiding over assault cases involving bottles or glasses has refused to hear a case of a woman who was allegedly glassed in the face by another woman at a night-club.

Cranberries singer Dolores O’Riordan walked free from court yesterday after a judge said she has not been treated any differently to anyone else who comes before his court in similar circumstances.

A man charged with heroin dealing was sent to the prison cells at a district court yesterday after telling a judge that he was a “turkey”.

A teen thief broke into a secure car park at a Garda station and stole items from four privately owned Garda cars along with a stab vest from the station.

The district court judge who witnessed a man exposing himself in front of him in court is not to be called to give evidence in the case.

A ‘Good Samaritan’ priest gave a burglar a lift into Ennis town centre only minutes after finding the thief hiding in his wardrobe.

A senior garda has told a court a machete-wielding 17-year-old told his neighbour he would kill everyone in the upstairs of a home after gaining entry last July.

‘Facebook escape artist’ Jason Freyne, who was in custody last July, opened a malfunctioning, unlocked cell door and walked out the back door of a courthouse.

A judge who was subjected to a man exposing himself in front of him in court demanded heightened security at future court sittings.

Two people charged in connection with alleged illegal money lending in Kilrush have been returned for trial to Ennis Circuit Court.

A Limerick man who was clocked driving at 140km/h during a car chase with gardaí proved too quick for red-faced prison officers yesterday when he escaped custody and ran out of Ennis courthouse along with another prisoner.

A cyclist is to contest a charge of careless driving on a bicycle on New Year’s eve 2013.

A man with a serious drinking problem who took a car from a garage forecourt without permission for “a test drive” was caught less than 90 minutes later having crashed it multiple times.

The master of a Dingle fishing vessel appeared in court in Killarney charged with log book offences in relation to a catch of hake unloaded in Dingle.

A district court judge said yesterday that a case of a man charged with careless driving a bicycle is the first such case he has come across in the courts.

A 60-year-old man put Irish Water meter installation workers in fear of their lives when he came out of his home armed with an air gun after he discovered his shower was not working.

A US-bound passenger plane was forced to dump over 20 tonnes of fuel to make an emergency landing in Shannon, after a Miami barman got into a drunken rage after drinking a huge quantity of vodka on board, a court has heard.

A judge yesterday issued a bench warrant for the arrest of one of the stars of RTÉ’s Bressie’s Teenage Kicks.