A district court judge has slammed the operators of a speed camera, after a taxi driver was detected driving over the speed limit on five separate occasions in the same spot in the space of 70 minutes.

A visit to Galway for a stag party could have proved fatal for a man who climbed in a hospital window and helped himself to two bottles of Adrenaline.

Restaurateurs have asked why the industry should lose out out on a €15m Easter bonanza when “even the Vatican City doesn’t obey this ridiculous” ban on alcohol sales.

A sex offender who held talent show auditions to gain access to children has been jailed for 10 months.

A 28-year-old man appeared in court charged with the sale and distribution of child porn, with some of the alleged content involving children as young as three months old.

A man last night apologised to his family after admitting murdering his brother.

A takeaway order with a difference landed Supermac’s in court yesterday. However, the fast food restaurant group emerged with a tasty victory after the hearing.

Supersub Hannah Ní Dhéa netted the late goal to seal a dramatic 2-9 to 2-5 victory for Coláiste Íosagáin, Stillorgan, in today’s Tesco Homegrown Post Primary Schools All-Ireland senior A ladies football final at Dr. Cullen Park in Carlow.

I’M in St Mary’s Abbey, at Glencairn, near Lismore, Co Waterford, which is home to 36 monastic nuns.

A man conned two people into parting with their money by selling them non-existent All-Ireland tickets and an Apple iPhone online.

A 70-year-old Connemara man who exposed himself to children attending an Irish college last summer and offered them money for sex has been given a suspended 11-month sentence with strict conditions attached.

A NAKED man sat on a woman’s face to humiliate her because she goaded him over his lack of “balls” when he refused to have sex with her.

A ROMANIAN woman has been remanded in continuing custody charged with handling statues and ornaments stolen from graves at a Co Galway cemetery last August.

A ROMANIAN man has been remanded in custody charged with withholding information in connection with the ongoing murder investigation into the death of schoolteacher and publican, John Kenny.

A PARISIAN chef used the video camera on his phone to peek under women’s skirts as they browsed in a clothes shop.

A PENSIONER has been sent forward for trial on 72 charges of sexually abusing seven of his daughters.

CONVICTED murderer and rapist Gerald Barry has been given a concurrent two-year sentence for assaulting his former partner and their young son two months before he raped and murdered Swiss student Manuela Riedo.

THE manager of the only hotel on Inis Mór has been told by a District Court judge that he is “utterly unsuitable” to run a licenced premises.

A TEENAGE soccer fan was foaming at the mouth when he threatened to punch a garda who had directed him to stay off the pitch during an Eircom League match between Bohemians and Galway United at Terryland Park in Galway.

JUDGE Mary Fahy has described the prosecution of restaurants that sell alcohol on Good Friday as being ludicrous and ridiculous and that people are entitled to have wine with their meals “even on Good Friday”.