A DEFENDANT who appeared in Portlaoise District Court said she did not accept that cash seized by gardaí during a search of her house was the proceeds of drug dealing.

WHEN gardaí got a strong smell of cannabis coming from a group of women, at the train station in Portlaoise, they searched one, and found her to be in possession of 27 Alprazolam (Xanax) tablets.

AT Portlaoise District Court last week, a solicitor for a man asked Judge Susan Fay not to impose a custodial sentence on her client who had amassed 110 previous convictions.

A MAN appeared at the family law court in Portlaoise by video link from Cloverhill Prison was charged with two counts of assaulting a woman, causing her harm on two separate occasions.

"He completely disregarded my boundaries; he betrayed my trust in the worst way.” 

JUDGE Andrew Cody said that a woman who was driving around in her car with heavily tinted windows may as well have had them painted black when her case came before him last week.

"You couldn’t make it up!"

A 31-year old woman and 44-year old man appeared at the Family Law Court in Portlaoise on charges of child cruelty.

The judge was incredulous

A DRIVER who crashed his car into another vehicle and drove off following an altercation with an ex-partner appeared at Portlaoise District Court last Thursday on a number of road traffic offences.

A large group of people had been involved in a fight that lasted about 10 minutes.

A TEENAGE boy who caused over €2,000 damage to glass doors of a shop was remanded on continuing bail when he appeared before a recent sitting of the Juvenile Court in Portlaoise.

THE owners of the TK Max store in Kyle Shopping Centre, Portlaoise had to pay a call-out fee of €350 to repair an escalator in its store after a teenage boy damaged it by jumped up and down on it while it was operational.

A MAN who broke into a garda station and broke into a house in Durrow was ordered to undergo a probation report with a view to carrying out a community service order.

A MAN who was detected soaking wet after trying to gain illegal access to this year's Electric Picnic by crossing a local river came before Portlaoise District Court on public order offences.Garda Sergeant JJ Kirby said that at 8.30pm on 17 August, ...

JUDGE Deirdre Gearty refused to accept jurisdiction when two people came before her at a recent sitting of Portlaoise district Court charged with assault causing harm.

A DOMESTIC dispute that spilled out onto the public roadway landed a man in court on public order offences.

“He’s not proud of his actions. He drank to excess on the night,” said the Portlaoise man's solicitor.

AN ONLINE fitness coach has until February to make a €400 donation to the poor box at Portlaoise District Court or he will be left with a lifelong conviction under the ‘Firearms Act.

A SOLICITOR told Judge Susan Fay at a recent sitting of Portlaoise Family Law Court that his client’s family “is up in a heap because he is not allowed back into his house”.