A 28 year old man who repeatedly punched his partner during what Judge Keenan Johnson described as a ‘series of protracted assaults’ in her home was sentenced to nine months in prison at Sligo Circuit Court.
A 52 year old grandfather with 55 previous convictions had a jail sentence lifted on appeal to Sligo Circuit Court which heard his offending had “petered out” in recent years.
A Ballymote man, who was due to go on trial on four counts of assault causing harm to his partner, pleaded guilty to the first count on the indictment at Sligo Circuit Court.
The state solicitor for Co Sligo has said she is duty-bound to seek to quash certain convictions in the case of Bernard Kilgariff, himself a senior official in the Department of Agriculture
Four young people were subjected to a 20 minute nightmare when the house they were staying in was burgled by two men armed with a kitchen knife and a Stanley blade.
Sligo Circuit Court heard the men, John McDonagh (25) with an address of 24 Brookfield, Ballinode and Kailem Sweeney (18) of 63, Garavogue Villas entered the home of Ellie Hurd at 61, Glencarrig, Ballinode at 5am on January 18th armed and wearing latex gloves.
The men both pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary, making a threat to kill, criminal damage to the house and criminal damage to a car. Additionally McDonagh pleaded guilty to the burglary of 27 Brookfield on the same date, unauthorised taking of a car, and threatening to kill Kalem Lenihan.