Four criminals were contracted in Lithuania to target a Galway jewellers where they carried out an armed robbery stealing €1.1m worth of diamond rings and Rolex watches.

A man who sexually assaulted a 17-year-old schoolgirl, who was working alone in a small country shop, and later followed and accosted her in his van as she walked home, has been placed on probation for a year.

A grandmother who posted soiled underwear to a couple she had been harassing for years has been sentenced to three years in prison with the final two years suspended.

A GAA player jailed for assaulting an opponent during a match between two Mayo football clubs, has walked free from prison following a successful appeal.

A 39-year-old Romanian man has been sentenced to three years in prison for handling statues and other religious ornaments which were stolen from graves in Lackagh and Annaghdown, Co Galway, four years ago.

A wheelchair-user paedophile sentenced to five years for indecent assault was transported to Castlerea Prison — and then brought home again — because he could not be accommodated at the jail this week.

A paedophile who had unrestricted access to a seven-year-old girl after befriending her family and subsequently acting as a babysitter, has been sentenced to seven years in prison for using her to produce child pornography and for sexually exploiting and assaulting her over a three-year period.

A wheelchair user has been sentenced to five years in prison for indecently assaulting a girl during the 1980s.

A Connemara builder has been sentenced to seven years in prison with the final three years suspended for 10 years for an assault on traditional Irish musician, Noel Hill, in a pub toilet on St Stephen’s night seven years ago, which has left the victim with lifelong injuries.

A law graduate has been sentenced for five years in prison with 18 months suspended for setting fire to a medical student in a Galway nightclub three years ago.

A teenager drowned when the speeding, overcrowded car in which he had been a front-seat passenger lost control and ended up in a waterlogged drain.

A fearful teenage mother says her former boyfriend is torturing her in her dreams following their break-up.

Man serving 8 years for robbing prostitutes gets concurrent term

A man who denied any involvement in the 2011 manslaughter of a teacher and publican was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison for withholding evidence during Garda investigations.

The trial of a Romanian man charged with the manslaughter of schoolteacher John Kenny in his pub in Oughterard in 2011, ended yesterday when the prosecution withdrew the charge from the jury.

A builder will be sentenced in July for an assault on traditional Irish musician Noel Hill in a pub toilet on St Stephen’s night seven years ago. The victim was left with lifelong injuries.

The trial of former property developer Kevin McGeever for wasting Garda time in relation to a six-month investigation into his alleged kidnapping two years ago has been adjourned to May.

A 41-year-old man with a lifelong history of epilepsy has been sentenced to seven years in prison, with the final three years suspended, for causing the deaths of two baby sisters near Tuam two years ago.

A 41-year-old man will be sentenced on Friday for causing the deaths of two baby sisters near Tuam, Co Galway, 18 months ago.

A grandmother who stole a 92-year-old woman’s life savings of €41,000, has been given three months to repay €10,000 or else go to prison for two years.

A Limerick man who was part of a three-person gang involved in the tiger kidnapping of a post office manager’s son has had his sentence adjourned to allow a suspended sentence hanging over him from Cork Circuit Court be dealt with.

A man who punched, kicked, and stamped on a terminally ill and defenceless man before being stopped by onlookers from throwing him into a canal has been jailed for five years with the final year suspended.

A 36-year-old employee with a serious gambling addiction has been given a suspended two-year sentence for stealing almost €50,000 from a Brown Thomas store in Galway.

The trial of a priest charged with the sexual abuse of two brothers in a Co Galway school in the 1970s collapsed at Galway Circuit Criminal Court yesterday.

A Corkman who had videos on his computer of children being raped, was caught when he reported his car stolen to gardaí.

A man who caused a riot when he took part in a prearranged bare-knuckle fight which attracted up to 200 spectators in a halting site near Galway City has been given a year to prove his fighting days are over.

A Congolese man who beat his heavily pregnant wife with a cooking pot, a pan, plates, glasses and knives in front of their four children was given a three-year sentence yesterday.

A civil action brought by a contractor against Senator Fidelma Healy Eames has been dismissed, but an order for €12,412 was made against her husband Michael.

The husband of Galway senator Fidelma Healy Eames has been ordered to pay over €12,400 to an Oranmore tradesman for non-payment of work carried out at the couple's home in Maree.

THE jury in the trial of a dentist accused of sexually assaulting a dental nurse failed to reach a verdict yesterday after almost seven hours of deliberation.

THE jury in the trial of a dentist accused of sexually assaulting a young dental nurse days after she began working for him was sent home by the trial judge yesterday evening and told to resume their deliberations today.

A MAN has been found guilty of the manslaughter of another man who died nine days after being struck with a hurley during a late-night incident in a city park.

A Fingal man facing a firearm and a drugs charge that carries possible life imprisonment has been refused permission to visit Amsterdam to celebrate his birthday.

THE Irish Sports Council (ISC) is pressing ahead with its Beijing review without the involvement of the Olympic Council of Ireland (OCI), an ISC spokesman confirmed last night.

A man whose family have had to leave their home due to threats from drug dealers who claim he owes them €1,500 has been given a four-year sentence for storing €700,000 cannabis resin in his bedroom.

EAMON Coughlan and Keith Wood are amongst the high profile board members of the new Irish Institute of Sport under the executive chairmanship of Sean Kelly.

Transport Minister Seamus Brennan’s lawyer has briefly cross-examined property developer Tom Gilmartin at the Mahon Tribunal.