If CCTV cameras were installed in hotel bedrooms, there’d be all sorts of trouble.

A GRAIGUECULLEN woman who drove without insurance after her partner’s leg injury forced her to take the wheel has been disqualified from driving for two years.

A MAN who broke into a house in Portlaoise believing it to be used as an IPAS centre but instead was being lived in by Bulgarian workers was remanded on continuing bail when he appeared at the local district court last week.

GARDAÍ summoned a motorist to court for driving without insurance or a driver’s licence after they were tipped off by his wife that he was driving illegally, following a row between the couple.

A 37-YEAR-OLD Polish man who was found driving without insurance has been fined €400 after a judge decided not to disqualify him from driving due to his sole custody of two children.

A MAN who allegedly stole chicken pieces from a local butcher’s shop had his case adjourned when he appeared at Portlaoise District Court.

GARDA Lisa Murray served a book of evidence on a Laois couple at Portlaoise District Court last week, who were both charged with one count of child cruelty, two counts of obtaining sexual gratification from the presence of a child and with a count ...

A MAN denied putting his former partner in fear by banging on her front door and shouting through the letter box when his case was heard at an in-camera hearing at Portlaoise Family Law Court last week.

The man told his daughter that they had a 'special love' her mother would be jealous of

‘This is the lady that pushes the pram and stuffs stuff into it’ – Judge Andrew Cody

Mr Feeney is nothing short of a thug, and a recidivist thug’ – Judge Andrew Cody

A LAOIS man was sent forward for trial to the 17 February sitting of Portlaoise Criminal Circuit on one count of possessing child pornography.

A GARDA fractured one of his fingers while attempting to restrain a highly intoxicated man who had been offering to start fights in the Top Square in Portlaoise.

A GRAIGUECULLEN man who used foul language towards gardaí while intoxicated at a pub was sentenced to two months in prison.

WHEN a funeral director came across two men who had horses in a cemetery, one abused, roared and shouted at him.

Two Laois brothers have been jailed for sexual abuse of their niece during her childhood. James Joseph Jordan (59) and Patrick Fintan Jordan (55) began abusing their niece, Sabrina Fox, when she was just nine years old.

A 22-YEAR-OLD man appeared before Carlow District Court after he caused €700 worth of damage to a vending machine when he struck it with a golf club.

TWO men who were allegedly planning a terrorist attack on a mosque and who were allegedly part of a right-wing extremist group were back before Portlaoise District Court last week.

A MAN who was drunk and caused a nuisance in the A&E at Portlaoise hospital was fined €200 when he appeared at the local district court.

A CONVICTED sex offender was denied bail when he was brought before last week’s sitting of Portlaoise District Court. The case was held in camera, which prohibited the press from identifying the accused.