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TWO witnesses in the case of a man charged with assault failed to appear at a hearing which was due to take place at last Monday s district court. A second hear.
Boiling point! Offaly man convicted of saucepan assault
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A 54-year-old Offaly man was convicted of assaulting another man with a saucepan at last Monday s sitting of Tullamore District Court.
Michael Carroll, 54, Clonlee, Kinnitty had denied striking Percy Moyles at Clonee on September 9, 2020, when he came before Judge Bernadette Owens.
In his evidence, the injured party Mr Moyles said that on the above date he had received a call to say some of his sheep were on a public road. He went to investigate and there were indeed sheep loose. He said he put them into another field but after counting them he knew he was short.
JUDGE Catherine Staines last week questioned an Offaly labourer s claim that he was earning €350 a week. Suzanne Dooner, BL, counsel for Jason Martin McCou.
Offaly drink driver jailed after being found six times over the limit
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A DRIVER who was nearly six times over the legal alcohol limit was sentenced to three months in prison and banned from the road for eight years.
Judge Catherine Staines imposed the sentence after being told that Declan Maloney, with addresses at Kilbrook, Tullamore and Castlebar, Co Mayo had 26 previous convictions, including two for drink-driving.
The 46-year-old man had a concentration of 111 micrograms of alcohol in his breath when he was stopped by Garda Ronan Maher at Ard na Greine, Cloncollig, Tullamore on March 4 last.