A judge has criticised the “social evil’ of late-night street assaults, saying a single blow from a young, fit man can cause catastrophic injuries.

Two men arrested following a car chase by gardaí appeared at a special sitting of Sligo District Court yesterday .

A murder suspect was put on suicide watch on the orders of a judge yesterday.

Charges against a couple, accused of lying to the Garda Síochana Ombudsman Commission (GSOC), were yesterday struck out by a judge who criticised some garda witnesses.

Heartfelt tributes were paid to the late Ballyshannon-based Sergeant Michael Galvin yesterday, on a day when Garda Commissioner Nóirín O’Sullivan paid a private visit to boost morale in the shell-shocked station.

A judge has again ordered a psychiatric assessment on a Co Donegal man charged with the murders of his parents.

The daughter of a couple tragically killed in their Co Donegal home has pleaded with people with mental health problems to get professional help.

The daughter of a couple tragically killed in their Co Donegal home has pleaded with people with mental health problems to get professional help.

A man has been charged with the murder of his parents after appearing at a special sitting of Ballyshannon District Court in Co Donegal.

A man has been charged with the murder of his parents after appearing at a special sitting of Ballyshannon District Court in Co Donegal.

A man has been accused of a series of gross sex offences against a child.

A waitress has been charged with dangerous driving causing the death of surfer Alan McSherry, 48, in a hit and run.

A man accused of urinating outside Ballyshannon Court has had his case dismissed because it did not happen in Dublin.

A judge has ruled that a male nurse who admitted placing surgical tape across a patient’s mouth be given the Probation Act.

A judge found that a male nurse who put surgical tape on a patient’s mouth was overworked and under serious stress with inadequate management support in a HSE hospital.

The State sought bail of €5.8m yesterday to free one of the world’s largest fishing ships, the Dutch-owned Annelies Ilena, formerly the Killybegs-owned Atlantic Dawn.

A man convicted of harassing women reoffended just 10 days after a court warning that his freedom was hanging by a thread, a prosecutor claimed yesterday.

A judge yesterday told a 20-year-old motorist that his drunk and dangerous driving caused “the death of an unborn baby” of a pregnant garda.

A 29-year-old man has pleaded guilty to the murder of Eugene Gillespie in Sligo.

A 29-year-old man has been charged with the murder of Eugene Gillespie in Sligo Town.

The judge who ordered a €2.50 drinks price minimum in three seaside resort clubs has been told one breached the spirit of his ruling by not charging for mixers with shorts.

Clubowners in a price war in Bundoran, Co Donegal, were accused yesterday of believing they were “above the law”.

The top garda in the North-West was attacked in his car twice as his wife and daughter looked on in horror.

A lawyer has said a price war between rival bar-owning cousins, with one selling cocktails for as little as 50c and another offering as much as customers could drink for €20, was in danger of putting a teenager in the morgue.

Two men were charged at a special court sitting yesterday with possession of an estimated €1.5m worth of cannabis for sale or supply.

A sulky race on the N4 between Sligo and Dublin — footage of which was posted on YouTube — resulted in three people being convicted and fined at Sligo District Court.

A Traveller women in court for driving with a mobile phone told a judge she could not have been holding one as her culture would not have allowed her to have one until she was married.

A JUDGE was given a brief account yesterday of how to bake cannabis cakes.

THE High Court has found a district court judge who had previously acted as a defence lawyer for a man who later appeared before him on drink-driving charges may have found it difficult to bring “an open mind” to the case.

A JUDGE yesterday accused a 26-year-old man of nearly beating his two-month baby “into a pulp” in a row during which he kicked his girlfriend six times.

A GARDA who was prosecuted for obtaining false loss of earning certificates for a witness in a prosecution against the McBreartys did not consider it a big sin when he did it, a solicitor said yesterday.

A garda who was prosecuted for obtaining false loss of earning certificates for a witness in a prosecution against the McBreartys did not consider it a big sin when he did it, a solicitor said today.

LEITRIM footballer Ciaran Murray has pledged to return to New York and face the full rigours of the law for the ‘silly’ bomb prank at JFK Airport which went disastrously wrong.