Six people appeared in court yesterday for allegedly assaulting patients who are intellectually disabled at the HSE-run Áras Attracta centre in Swinford, Co Mayo.

A number of speeding summonses may have to be dismissed after a High Court ruling.

A High Court ruling may result in a number of speeding summonses being thrown out.

The High Court has been asked to rule whether gardaí must provide a photograph of a car when they summons its driver to the District Court for speeding.

A former traffic warden fought back tears when she claimed her successor tried to intimidate motorists at her mother’s funeral.

A 22-year-old man appeared at a special court sitting yesterday charged with the murder of 28-year-old Sarah Staunton at her home near Balla, Co Mayo over the weekend.

A father is to stand trial on charges of murdering his two sons.

A 43-year-old man has been sent forward for trial at the Central Criminal Court charged with the murders of his sons.

A 26-year-old man from the Ballina area has been remanded in custody after being charged with the murder of two elderly brothers at their home in Castlebar on Wednesday.

A 26 year old man has appeared in court charged with the murder of two elderly brothers in Co Mayo.

A prominent inter-county GAA footballer who failed a breath test the morning after a wedding was banned yesterday from driving for a year.

A FORMER government minister and his ex-wife were sentenced to jail on Monday in the UK for swapping penalty points while, in our little Republic, allegations that TDs’ penalty points were mysteriously wiped create barely a ripple of controversy.

A sheep farmer was so enraged by a garda refusal to give him a gun licence that he drove a tractor at speed into the yard of a Garda station, causing a retired officer who was gardening there to leap onto a flower bed.

The Taoiseach’s nephew has been sentenced to seven months in prison for a crime spree that included burglary, car theft and driving while intoxicated.

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Opposition TDs have named Judge Mary Devins as one of the high-profile people who had penalty points wiped from their licences by gardaí.

THE CASUAL ignorance of the remark was jaw-droppingly offensive; the so-called apology, if anything, even more damning — and the fact both were uttered by a judge was deeply worrying.

The judge who likened the social welfare system to a “Polish charity” yesterday issued a full apology after one group threatened to lodge an official complaint with gardaí.

The Integration Centre is withdrawing its plan to complain to the Gardaí about comments made by a District Court judge.

Judge Mary Devins has today offered a new appolgy 'unreservedly and without qualification' following her recent comments about social welfare.

A formal complaint is being lodged with gardaí over comments by a judge comparing social welfare to a "Polish charity".

The Integration Centre has said it will make a formal complaint to the Gardaí after a District Court judge commented that the social welfare system is a "Polish charity".

The Irish Polish Society has said comments made by a District Court Judge about the Polish community were "inappropriate and irresponsible".

There has been a furious reaction from the Polish community to a Mayo judge’s comment, made in court, that the social welfare system is a “Polish charity”.

The Chairperson of the Irish Polish Society has said that she is outraged at comments made by a District Court Judge about Polish people.

A District Court Judge has apologised for likening Social Welfare to charity for Polish people.

The Supreme Court has described as “inexplicable” the failure by the Oireachtas to allow for the prosecutions of buggery offences committed pre-1993, when it was decriminalising buggery between two consenting adults.

A 19-year-old man has appeared in court in Co Mayo charged with murdering his mother.

THE High Court has reserved judgment on whether a District Court judge was correct to find Shell & acted in contempt of court orders when it went onto commonage lands at Rossport, Co Mayo, two years ago to carry out site investigations. The commonage is on the modified route for the Corrib gas onshore pipeline.

A 29-YEAR-OLD man, described as a suicide risk, appeared in court in Castlebar, Co Mayo, yesterday charged with the murder of his mother.

A 29-year-old man is to be put in psychiatric care after being charged with murdering his mother.

The High Court has granted bail to seven people arrested in connection with the ongoing dispute over the laying of a Shell gas pipeline in Co Mayo.

A RETIRED school principal who is one of the most recognised of the Shell to Sea campaigners has been sent to jail.

ROSSPORT protesters last night vowed to continue their fight against the Corrib gas pipe line despite three of their members being awarded three-month jail sentences.

Motorists who break the law in Co Mayo could soon be ordered to attend a driving school set up by the local county council.

A PROBLEM that will occupy the minds of a lot of people in this country today is not the state of the peace process in Northern Ireland, nor the future of Iraq.

LONG-AWAITED laws to clamp down on motorists using mobile phones will not be in place until next year.