The incident happened in 2023.

THERE were terse exchanges at Carlow District Court recently when two defendants, both appearing without legal representation, insisted they did not want solicitors, prompting Judge Geraldine Carthy to step in and assign someone to both men.

FIVE men who recently appeared before Carlow District Court in relation to speeding offences at Graiguenaspiddoge got an unexpected boost when their charges were dismissed for a variety of reasons.

A WOMAN told Carlow District Court that she was left bleeding heavily from a head wound and denied medical help after her former partner kicked in a toilet door during a violent incident at their shared home.

A GRANDMOTHER who was clocked at more than three times the speed limit on a country road was jailed for five months on 10 March.

A GRAIGUECULLEN woman was convicted and fined €300 at Carlow District Court for driving while on her phone and was accused by the garda who pulled her over of threatening to place a ‘traveller’s curse’ on him. The court heard how on 7 July 2025 at 4.

A FORMER betting assistant at Alphabet Betting in Borris was awarded compensation after the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC) ruled that her employers had breached several of her employment rights.

A MAN pleaded guilty to speaking inappropriately to a 14-year-old girl in the foyer of Carlow Garda Station in the early hours of the morning in a case heard in camera before Carlow District Court.

A WOMAN was convicted of speeding at Carlow District Court after a judge ruled that she had failed in her legal obligation to nominate an alternative driver within the prescribed time period, despite her mother taking to the witness stand to insist ...

A THREE-hour drunken nap at a Killeshin service station resulted in a drink-driving conviction and two-year driving suspension for a County Carlow man.

The garda's explanation of the video could not be used to convict him.

He said he abandoned his dad's van because he "knew he would go mad". 

A RATHVILLY man was handed a custodial sentence and disqualified from driving for eight years after pleading guilty to driving while disqualified, driving without insurance and without road tax at Carlow District Court.

A HACKETSTOWN woman was sentenced to 200 hours of community service and a two-year suspended prison sentence on 4 March after pleading guilty to 33 charges relating to theft and forgery.

A CARLOW District Court judge has handed down an eight-year driving ban to a woman who was found to have almost twice the legal limit of alcohol in her system when she was stopped by gardaí in Baltinglass while already disqualified from driving.

A 31-YEAR-old man was fined €2,000, but escaped a driving disqualification, after a judge cited his remorse and apology to the court following a collision that left an elderly pedestrian with a broken hip, from which she has never fully recovered.

A CARLOW woman has been sentenced to 80 hours of community service for allowing over €12,000 of misappropriated funds to be funnelled through her bank account.

A teenager has been remanded in custody by Judge Mary Morrissey at Carlow Circuit Court awaiting the finalisation of his sentence for a range of theft and burglary offences.

A DEFENDANT was sentenced to one month in prison for stealing a bottle of Paddy’s whiskey by Judge Geraldine Carthy at a sitting of Carlow District Court on 12 March.

IN one of a slew of Graiguenaspiddoge speeding offences before Carlow District Court on Wednesday 11 March, a man who represented himself came before Judge Geraldine Carthy for three speeding offences.

A SLEW of offensive and threatening messages sent to his godmother over the course of one morning has led to a conviction for harassment for a Carlow man.

A CARLOW man was fined €550 at Carlow District Court after being found guilty of two public order offences for public intoxication.

A RATHVILLY man who grew cannabis plants in tents inside a shed at his home has pleaded guilty to possession and possession with intent to supply, Carlow District Court heard last week.

A CARLOW man who embarked on a prolific shoplifting spree across the town following his release from prison pleaded guilty to ten counts of theft at Carlow District Court after a bid to have him released on bail to attend a drug treatment programme ...

A CARLOW woman was severely reprimanded by Judge Mary Morrissey in Carlow Circuit Court last week for posting videos about an ongoing trial in which she is the defendant.

A MAN has pleaded guilty to using an allegedly fraudulent card to purchase €1,331 worth of tiles on his employer’s instructions in a case a judge described as “bizarre” with “an awful lot of the jigsaw missing”.

He was identified on CCTV footage

A 34-YEAR-old man has been sentenced to five months in prison after he was caught driving while serving a disqualification, despite claiming he had only got behind the wheel in order to sign on at a garda station as a condition of his bail.

A CARLOW man pleaded guilty to two charges of theft contrary to section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act (Theft and Fraud Offences), 2001 at a sitting of Carlow Circuit Court last week.

"It was like the end of the world", said the sister of the deceased.

A MAN who made threats to kill a worker at a Carlow service station while accusing her of sharing a compromising video of him has been convicted of two public order offences.

AN AMATEUR snooker champion has been exonerated by a Carlow Circuit Court jury of charges arising from an incident with two gardaí on 29 August 2024.

CARLOW Circuit Court heard last Thursday how a 39-year-old woman who has been before the courts on numerous occasions arising from a chronic addiction to heroin since her early teens is currently facing a lengthy period in custody stretching to late ...

A FIXED speed camera at a single location in Graiguenaspiddoge, Co Carlow brought 34 drivers before Carlow District Court recently, although for many of them the law proved more forgiving than the lens.

A YOUNG Carlow woman who allowed her bank account to be used as a conduit for over €12,000 in fraudulent transactions linked to a nationwide social welfare fraud scheme has been told she will learn her fate next week.

A CARLOW man with 75 previous convictions, who went on a violent rampage through a local park – robbing one man of his watch, attempting to steal another man’s dog and trying to snatch a mobile phone from a third who came to his victim’s aid – has ...

A 54-YEAR-old man who pleaded guilty to possession of sexually explicit material featuring minors has been remanded on continuing bail after a judge indicated that she required further time to consider the case.

A ROAD Safety Authority employee was among five motorists who appeared before Carlow District Court for speeding offences detected by a fixed camera on the N80 at Graiguenaspiddoge.

A 52-YEAR-old Carlow man was found guilty of causing criminal damage to a neighbour’s flowerpots and car in an incident that occurred on 3 September 2025.

A POLISH native pleaded guilty to one count of possessing a stolen bicycle and one count of possessing drugs for sale or supply before Judge Mary Morrissey in Carlow Circuit Court on 19 February.

A CARLOW driver received a five month prison sentence and was put off the road for eight years after he appeared before the local district court recently for driving without insurance or a drivers' licence.

A MAN who was in Kerry on the day of his court appearance was convicted of drug-driving at Carlow District Court after blood samples taken on the night of his arrest tested positive for cannabis.

A 22-YEAR-old man pleaded guilty last week to the theft of DJ equipment and mobile phones when he was arraigned before Carlow Circuit Court.