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FINES totalling €31,000 have been imposed on two brothers and a local company for damaging the River Barrow and River Nore Special Area of Conservation in Laois.
Three men pleaded guilty to multiple charges relating to breaches of legislation regarding Special Area of Conservation in Laois, at Portlaoise District Court
Carl Ryan threatened to burn his neighbours' children and 'nail them to the floorboards' after being charged with a series of threats to locals on his estate over a 13-month period
A man who terrorised his housing estate in Co Donegal threatened to burn his neighbours' children and “nail them to the floorboards”, a court has heard.