A 62-YEAR-old man who stole from a Castledermot supermarket on 12 separate occasions in the aftermath of losing his family home to an arson attack received a fully suspended sentence at Carlow District Court.

A CARLOW man who was found smoking a cannabis joint while sitting on swings at a local playground was fined €150 at Carlow District Court.

GARDAÍ responding to reports of a man knocking on doors in a Carlow housing estate found the resident intoxicated and unsteady on his feet. He told them he had smoked crack cocaine and taken a number of tablets.

“What I have seen is actually shocking, unacceptable and will never be tolerated by this court or any other court.” 

A CONSTRUCTION worker who was found to have seven times the legal limit of cannabis in his bloodstream while driving in Carlow was fined and banned from the road for four years.

A MAN received a six-month prison sentence, to run consecutively to one he is currently serving, after he pleaded guilty to the theft of €65 worth of groceries from a supermarket in Carlow.

“DO you think he’s done his penance translating for the court?” smiled the judge in the case of a man who forgot to pay off a parking ticket.

A CARLOW woman was fined €500 and disqualified from driving for three years after she pleaded guilty to drink-driving at Carlow District Court, having been found to be more than twice the legal limit.

A MAN who has been in custody for over two months after he allegedly stole a car – while in a wheelchair with a broken leg – pleaded with the judge for a sentence before acceding to the advice of his counsel.

A 42-YEAR-old man who was unaware that his car insurance policy had been automatically cancelled appeared before Carlow District Court, where Judge Catherine Ryan opted not to disqualify him after hearing the circumstances of the case.

A CARLOW man who carried out a series of vehicle break-ins and thefts across Carlow town over a number of weeks has been sentenced to a total of 18 months in prison after appearing before Carlow District Court recently.

As part of ongoing investigations, gardaí from Baltinglass and Bray, supported by the Armed Support Unit (ASU), ...

He was disqualified from driving at the time of the offence. 

A MAN has been remanded in custody after a judge refused bail following his appearance at Carlow District Court last week. The defendant is facing three counts of arson and will be sent forward for trial at Circuit Court level.

TWO men who carried out a wide-ranging spree of vehicle break-ins and thefts across counties Carlow and Kildare in the early hours of the morning while under the influence of drugs have been sentenced at Carlow District Court.

A MAN was convicted and fined at a sitting of Carlow District Court after a judge found he had engaged in threatening and insulting behaviour motivated by racial hatred towards a Muslim man in a supermarket car park.

A WOMAN has received a six-month suspended sentence after she pleaded guilty to theft and burglary offences committed when she was a minor.

A 29-YEAR-old man was sentenced to one month in prison for stealing building tools and supplies from a house undergoing renovation in Castletown, Carlow at a hearing of Carlow District Court recently.

IN AN ‘unusual case’, a Carlow woman was convicted at Carlow District Court of possessing diazepam, a controlled drug for which she had a prescription, for the purpose of sale or supply.

A CARLOW man with 28 previous convictions has received two concurrent one-month suspended sentences after pleading guilty to possession of heroin and theft from a Carlow town shop.

NINETY-ONE diazepam tablets were found hidden in a man’s trouser leg after gardaí were called to a hotel disturbance, Carlow District Court heard.

A BRAZILIAN national was sentenced to eight months in prison after pleading guilty to four counts of theft at Carlow District Court.

A CARLOW man who was found with an ecstasy tablet valued at €10 after acting suspiciously in a housing estate has been directed to carry out community service.

A SHEEP farmer was able to appeal a decision not to grant him a firearms licence after he undertook only to use it on vermin on his land before Judge Catherine Ryan at Carlow District Court.

A CARLOW man who climbed onto the roof of his apartment and threatened to jump during a tense stand-off with gardaí has been convicted and fined at Carlow District Court.

A MORORIST who drove while almost five times over the legal alcohol limit was disqualified from driving for three years by Judge Catherine Ryan at a recent Carlow District Court sitting.

A CARLOW man pleaded guilty to the possession of 48 Xyclose tablets at Carlow District Court. The court heard how on 18 August at 4. 30pm, gardaí observed Shane Kehoe, 113 St Mary’s Park, Carlow bleeding from his nose in Carlow town.

GARDAÍ are investigating a series of incidents of criminal damage and vehicle break-ins that occurred across Co Carlow over the weekend.

TWO young men are awaiting sentencing after they pleaded guilty to possession of firearms in Naas Circuit Court last week.

A TULLOW man who was found with cannabis in his car during a late night garda patrol in Carlow town has avoided a conviction after making a €250 donation to the court poor box.

The 33-year-old was fined €500

A GRAIGUECULLEN man with 15 previous road traffic convictions received a four-month suspended sentence at Carlow District Court after he was caught driving without valid insurance, tax or an NCT certificate.

A MAN who was found fighting in Carlow town in the early hours of the morning and turned aggressive on gardaí has been convicted and fined €500 in his absence at Carlow District Court.

A 47-YEAR-old woman who made full admissions after gardaí found Brown Thomas purchases in her home has been remanded on bail for a probation report after Carlow District Court heard she faced multiple charges of fraudulent transactions totalling ...

A 37-YEAR-old man with many previous convictions, including 31 for theft and 35 for public order offences, has been sentenced to six months in custody and received a fully suspended ten-month term at Carlow District Court after a judge said she ...

THE former owner of Rocky’s Takeaway in Ballylinan was ordered to pay redundancy to a former employee who had worked at the takeaway for 11 years before being made redundant.

"I'll say no more"

A MAN drove his car through a garda checkpoint because he feared something had happened to his 88-year-old mother – a story the judge said was too strange not to believe.

A 46-YEAR-old Polish man who admitted careless driving after a car ‘fishtailed’ and mounted a footpath in Tesco car park in Tullow has been fined €500 at Carlow District Court.

A CARLOW District Court judge dismissed a charge of possession of drugs for sale or supply against a young Carlow man after finding that the evidence did not support the more serious allegation, convicting him instead on the lesser charge of ...

A ROMANIAN national was convicted and fined at Carlow District Court for shoplifting at Tesco in Fairgreen Shopping Centre.

A Man who admitted assaulting his father and causing extensive damage to his property is to appear before Carlow District Court in six weeks’ time for a probation report.

The judge wanted to know was he running a repair shop from prison.