The 47-year old caused €800 worth of damage.

An ambulance was called and paramedics saw to her injures, but the woman declined to be taken to hospital.

The judge gave the 39-year old an option - "Go for treatment or go to prison.” 

The 25-year old was five times over the drug driving limit.

The incident took place at the Lidl store in Portlaoise.

“You clearly have an issue with alcohol,” the judge told the 39-year old woman.

Free legal aid was approved to both defendants.

The woman is alleged to have stolen €44 worth of decorations.

The 18-year old was found in possession of €70 worth of cocaine

GARDAÍ were called out to deal with a man who was roaring and shouting obscenities at others and refusing to get off a bus in Portlaoise.

WHEN gardaí responded to an emergency 999 callout, they were met by a man who told them to “f**k off, go back to the zoo” and “f**k you.

The incident occurred at an address in Portlaoise

AT Portlaoise District Court last week, garda Lisa Murray served a book of evidence on John Egan (44) from Cushina, Portarlington, who was sent forward on three charges to the present sitting of Portlaoise Criminal Circuit Court.

A BLOOD swab taken from a smashed window of a hospital worker’s car led to the arrest of a man who came before Portlaoise District Court last week on charges of criminal damage and theft.

A MAN who, allegedly, caused over €6,500 fire damage to his own apartment came before last week’s sitting of Portlaoise District Court.

A CALLOUT to a bogus emergency 999 call resulted in two gardaí being assaulted. The incident occurred at 4pm on 21 December 2023 at an address along the Old Knockmay Road in Portlaoise.

"I’m not a bad person. I work on IT for a financial institution.”

JUDGE Andrew Cody said that he considered a comment, made to a garda, by a man was “an attempt to pervert the course of justice.

The court directed that 6,000 litres of confiscated diesel be donated to Portlaoise Rugby club.

The man's solicitor said: "It was simply a simple drunken stupid act that shouldn’t have happened.” 

A PORTLAOISE man was charged with an offence under the Firearms and Offensive Weapons Act at a sitting of the local district court.

“It was a big mistake. I have a good job. I’m not a bad person," said the accused.

In a court report published in last week’s Laois Nationalist newspaper and website headlined ‘Man who talked about “slicing Irish babies” to represent himself in court’, we quoted the defendant as referring to his solicitor Josephine Fitzpatrick and ...

A 50-YEAR-OLD man accused of publishing a grossly offence communication on TikTok about slicing ‘Irish babies, kids and you’ is to represent himself in further court proceedings.

The Portlaoise man is due to be released from prison next May.

"She’s probably going to lose everything because of a moment of madness," said the woman's solicitor.

A LAOIS man accused of false imprisonment, sexual assault and two counts of rape of a woman was remanded on bail when he came before Portlaoise District Court last week.

A Laois man who was brought before Judge Andrew Cody at Portlaoise District Court last week asked to be sentenced to six months in prison. However, Judge Cody said he was not going to impose a six-month sentence over the theft of a €1.

A MAN was brought before a special sitting of Portlaoise District Court this morning charged with offences relating to a message he allegedly posted on his social media page.

A PENSIONER had a driving ban postponed until the end of the summer when his case came before Portlaoise District Court last week.

IN THREE YEARS of presiding over Portlaoise District Court, Judge Andrew Cody has sentenced just one boy to custody in Oberstown Children’s Detention Centre.

A 14-YEAR-OLD boy was back before the children’s court in Portlaoise on Thursday following his appearance the previous week.

A MAN came before the family law court sitting of Portlaoise District Court last week charged with two counts of threatening to publish or distribute intimate images of his former partner.

A MAN who threatened gardaí that he would ‘get their wives and children’ was remanded in custody when he came before last week’s sitting of Portlaoise District Court.

The 38-year old was served with a book of evidence at Portlaoise District Court.

WITH more than 200 parking spaces available at Portlaoise hospital, a motorist decided to park his van in a loading bay. In so doing, he was fined €150 when his case came before a recent sitting of Portlaoise District Court.

JUDGE Andrew Cody noted that a man who came before Portlaoise District Court was the same age as him, to which a garda sergeant replied: “He has a different lifestyle to yours.

A GARDA who attended a collision between a car and an articulated lorry found an open bottle of Powers Whiskey on the floor the car.

The judge said that young male teenagers are terrorising not just parts of Dublin but also towns like Portlaoise and Portarlington.

The court was told that the man “was screaming, covered in blood and kicking out trying to hurt gardaí and paramedics”.

The defending barrister said that if his 40-year-old client is convicted, it “would have an impact on his employment”.

A BARRISTER told last week’s sitting of Portlaoise District Court that his client, who was exposed to mould poisoning from his house and car, had not taxed his car because it had been lying up for a prolonged period.

AN EMPLOYEE of the Prison Service who is applying to join the gardaí was convicted of motoring offences at last week’s sitting of Portlaoise District Court.