"All I want is to be out to see me kids"

A MAN who said he is on trial in Dublin charged with threatening to kill Simon Harris was before Portlaoise District Court last week charged with threatening to kill two Prison Officers.

There were between 20 and 30 middle-aged and elderly customers in the restaurant at the time

A BARRISTER assisted in court proceedings last week when he volunteered to interpret in the Yoruba language for a Kildare resident who was before it on driving offences.

THREE siblings in court on the same day received three very different outcomes, with the oldest brother getting 11 months in prison, the youngest sister getting fined €750, and the middle sister walking away with the Probation Act.

A BUSINESSMAN was fined €1,500 at Carlow Circuit Court last week for possessing several hundred grams of cannabis. Koffi Tobin, 18 Fr Byrne Park, Graiguecullen pleaded guilty to an offence contrary to section 3 of the Misuse of Drugs Act, 1977.

A PRODUCER and content creator was before last week’s sitting of Portlaoise District Court charged with possessing a knife and to a public order offence.

A DEFENCE position that was proffered by a solicitor at Portlaoise District Court last week was described by a judge as sounding “a bit far-fetched.

A 14-YEAR-OLD girl who was sexually assaulted at a party in Carlow last year told the court that the dress she wore that night was “soaked in tears”.

A MAN who was driving a tractor and trailer without insurance was disqualified from driving for six years when he appeared at last week’s sitting of Portlaoise District Court.

A MAN who stole a tube of Fixodent denture adhesive, a can of Pepsi Cola and a packet of cheese from Tesco was given until April next year to come up with the money to pay for the goods when he came before last week’s sitting of Portlaoise District ...

WHEN gardaí responded to a report of an alleged assault in the Laois Shopping Centre, Portlaoise they saw a man lying on the ground with blood coming from the back of his head and mouth.

TWO defendants described as “chronic heroin and crack cocaine users” pleaded guilty to robbing a visitor to Carlow of €400, after he asked them for directions, while the second defendant also pleaded guilty to burgling a restaurant in Carlow town.

AN ASSISTANT manager pleaded guilty at Portlaoise District Court last week to stealing goods from her former employer.

THREE men accused of the theft of €138,063. 04 from Iarnród Éireann were each served with a book of evidence when they came before Portlaoise District Court last week.

A WOMAN told gardaí that her former partner had allegedly tried to strangle and punch her when they responded to an emergency call-out to a domestic dispute.

A YOUNG man pleaded not guilty to dangerous driving when Judge Susan Fay said she was not going to reduce the charge to careless driving when he came before her at last week’s sitting of the District Court in Portlaoise.

FIVE members of the same family were jailed periods between six and 15 months each over an attempt to pull a €150,000 insurance scam by staging a fake crash in Athy over 10 years ago.

TWO cases of people acting as money mules were before Portlaoise District Court last week.

A 39-YEAR-OLD woman with 108 previous convictions, of which 93 were for theft, was back before last week sitting of Portlaoise District Court charged with three counts of theft.