A MAN who pleaded guilty to having an illegal laboratory in his home, where he manufactured and marketed unauthorised anabolic steroids, was given a prison sentence when he appeared before Carlow Circuit Court last week.

The judge described the defendant’s behaviour was “inexcusable”

His partner asked him to make her a sandwich and he allegedly placed medication in it by crushing up some tablets

A GRAIGUECULLEN man who went out for the night with his wife but who was asked to leave a pub in Carlow town was brought before the local district court on public order offences.

CCTV footage showed the defendant approaching his in-law with a headbutting action before hitting him

"A PICTURE paints a thousand words,” said Judge Geraldine Carthy as she imposed a suspended sentence on a woman who had pleaded guilty in Carlow District Court to assaulting another woman.