A RUGBY player was last week given a three-year prison sentence in Carlow Circuit Court after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a couple in a local bar, knocking the man out and beating the woman so badly that she didn’t recognise her own face in the ...

A NAIL SALON owner and her husband were both sentenced last week in Carlow Circuit Court after almost €230,000 worth of cannabis, cocaine and methamphetamine were discovered at their home and business.

A CARLOW man who admitted poisoning his partner was told by Judge Eugene O’Kelly that it was a “shockingly reckless thing to do”, when he appeared before the local circuit court to be sentenced last week.

A number of the dogs were emaciated and others had pressure sores, dental problems and overgrown nails

The defendant in direct evidence denied touching his step-sister, saying she was always looking for attention as a child and that she would pull up her top and pull down her trousers in front of him

The court heard the defendant had lied to the insurance company about the amount of finance he had owed on his car loan, telling them it was far less so that he could keep the balance

The man was contesting charges of assault causing harm and of carrying a knife

Carlow Circuit Court heard that the woman sustained a 7cm laceration to her left breast and a 10cm wound under her right breast

Man pleaded guilty to three counts of assault causing harm during a single incident

There were gasps of shock when CCTV footage from The Barracks was shown in court during the sentencing hearing last Thursday

The court was told that when she saw the sandwich still on her bedside locker, the bread had turned blue in places and, upon investigation, she saw blue tablets mixed into it

The woman, who runs a business on Dublin Street, Carlow and her husband will be sentenced at the next sitting of Carlow Circuit Court

The man pleaded not guilty before Carlow Circuit Court

Carlow Circuit Court heard that the woman had worked in Flynn’s Garage, Dublin Road, Tullow

Two men who were caught transporting heroin to feed their own drug habits

The Carlow man was described as “having a long history of complications in his life”

In a shocking invasion of her privacy, the student was filmed using the toilet and showering, as well as undressing and dressing

“WHAT you did to your friend was a nasty, vicious assault as a result of being drunk. There’s no point in calling her your friend.