One of the two youths charged in connection with the robbery of a taxi driver in Athlone, Co Westmeath, earlier this week, has apologised for his actions.

Four teenagers are due in court this morning in connection with two assaults on pensioners in Athlone.

Olympic silver medalist John Joe Nevin faces a trial by judge and jury after he was charged yesterday with the offence of violent disorder.

Olympic silver medallist John Joe Nevin has been barred from every pub in Co Westmeath pending a court case following a brawl outside a bar earlier this week.

A 35-year-old man appeared in court yesterday in connection with the investigation into the murder of Patryk Krupa in Athlone last year.

A farmer described by a judge as "totally lacking in humanity" has failed in his challenge to a Garda superintendent to have two confiscated rifles returned to him.

Shoplifting is reaching epidemic levels and the system is “an absolute joke” because there is no effective deterrent, according to a district court judge.

An Olympic boxer will avoid a conviction for public order offences after he gave a commitment to give four hours coaching to young people in his home town.

A farmer has been ordered to pay €10,000 in fines and costs after he failed to comply with a court order to reduce his stock levels.

A man has appeared in court charged with handling almost 1,200 stolen pigs. The animals, piglets and adult pigs, are alleged to have been stolen from a Westmeath pig farm in 2012.

Olympic boxer John Joe Nevin has been ordered to give an exhibition class to young boxers to atone for his part in a public order incident.

A 65-year-old man has appeared in court charged with indecently assaulting two boys in a Westmeath school 28 years ago.

A man in his 60s is due in court in connection with a number of indecent assaults at a school in Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.

Olympian John Joe Nevin’s wife and cousin will not be convicted for carrying out an illegal collection to raise money to send the Nevin family to the Olympics.

The secretary of Olympian John Joe Nevin’s boxing club has been asked to appear before a district court to explain how Mr Nevin’s family carried out an illegal door-to-door collection before the Games in London.

A teenager who was part of a gang throwing stones does not deserve compensation from a man who retaliated by seriously assaulting him, a district court judge has decided.

A Westmeath businessman has been fined today for failing to comply with a request to provide documentation to the Pensions Ombudsman.

A district court judge has slammed cash for gold shops and said he would close them down if he could.

Three young people have today been charged with the unlawful killing of Andrew Dolan.

GARDAÍ have applied to the courts to have an estimated €500,000 worth of documents recovered in a criminal investigation returned to their rightful owner.

IN what he described as one of the worst cases of overzealous prosecutions he had ever seen, a judge has ordered a county council to pay €750 to its local Tidy Towns committee.

A JUDGE has criticised the “skewed” sentencing legislation in Ireland where he could only give six months to man for a 29th drink-driving offence while a woman got 10 months for stealing groceries.

THERE is no deterrent to crime in this country, a judge has warned.

AN ANGRY boyfriend has been jailed for 10 months for painting obscene graffiti on the walls of the house where he thought his ex-girlfriend was living.

A MAN appeared in court in relation to an alleged assault in the early hours of Sunday morning which left a young French doctor fighting for his life in hospital.

A man has appeared in court, charged with assaulting a Garda sergeant during a stabbing incident in Co Donegal over the weekend.

A brother and a son of Veronica McGrath have been ordered to stay away from her at all times.

IT IS “high time” those who spend their social welfare payments on drink and drugs should receive vouchers instead of cash, a judge has said.

A MAN whose dogs killed and ate his girlfriend’s nine-month-old puppy has been banned from ever owning more than one dog.

A MAN alleged to have used nine identities to defraud the state of more than €250,000 has offered to plead guilty to all charges to save the state money.

A 63-YEAR-OLD man found to have 10 Irish and one British birth certificate, eight false British drivers’ licences and three passports has appeared in court charged with defrauding the Department of Social Protection of almost €250,000 over a four-year period.

A man is due in court in Mullingar this evening in connection with a serious assault on a girl in the town last week.

A JUDGE who once jailed a man for talking in his court was accidentally shot by a solicitor brandishing a pellet gun during a family law hearing in Longford.

A teenage boy appeared in court today in connection with the stabbing of a garda in Westport in Co. Mayo, in the early hours of Sunday morning last.

A teenager was tonight charged over the stabbing of a member of the Gardaí.

A Cavan man who received an 18-month suspended sentence for sexually assaulting another man has had his sentence partially reactivated by Mr Justice Paul Carney at the Central Criminal Court.

A total of 46 men appeared before a special sitting of Mullingar District Court today in connection with a public disturbance in the Dalton Park area of the town in July of last year.

Gardaí in Co Westmeath have arrested more than 30 people this morning in connection with large-scale public order disturbances last July.

FEUDING between two Traveller families in the midlands could descend into “open warfare” and murder unless efforts are made to broker a peace deal.

A Czech national has been charged with the murder of mother of two Sharon Coughlan in Longford town last weekend.

A 19-YEAR-OLD man was last night charged with the murder of a mother-of-two in Co Longford.

ROAD safety boss Gay Byrne said yesterday the real issue was not how a video of two men speeding at 192kph was passed to the media but the behaviour of the convicted men, whom he branded as “galoots”.

A man has been charged with the murder of an elderly man at the weekend.

Gardaí have arrested three men in Meath as part of Operation Anvil, which was set up to target armed gangs and gun crime in Dublin, it emerged today.