*Roger Bishop. A 75-year old Lissycasey man accused of providing a fraudulent French ID card to a 22-year old woman he met online in order to assist her to gain illegal entry into Ireland last year has been returned for trial.
*Cooraclare. Photograph: Shane Lorigan. A GARDA inspector declared a Cooraclare man a hostile witness in a case where his ‘over the drink-driving limit’ neighbour wrote off his car in a late night road traffic accident.
*Trevor Quinn. AN ENNIS teenager pleaded guilty to two charges in connection with a broad daylight machete attack that left his victim ‘3mm from death’ in the town.
*US pre-clearance at Shannon Airport. A ‘naive’ Cork teenager tried to get through US Customs & Border controls at Shannon Airport to board a US-bound flight with a friend’s passport who “he looked a bit like”, a court has heard.
*The burglary took place at Vaughan’s Garden Centre in February. A BURGLAR who fled an Ennis garden centre with a trolley full of stolen shrubs and flowers and left a trail of compost behind him to lead Gardaí to the man’s home nearby has been jailed for six months.
*Shane Curry in Dollhouse. A FORMER child movie star has received a suspended one-month prison term for a €140 theft of toys and alcohol from a Tesco outlet in Kilrush.
*An artist’s impression of the Ennis Data Centre. DEVELOPERS behind the planned €1.5bn data campus for Ennis has claimed that the project is being put at risk due to “bureaucratic inertia”.
*The sitting took place at Kilrush District Court on Tuesday. A JUDGE has rejected a defence that a 28-year old West Clare man was undergoing a sleep disorder episode when he was drink-driving and his car veered off the road into a ditch.
*Vaughan’s Garden Centre. AN unwitting burglar who fled a garden centre with a trolley full of stolen shrubs and flowers left a trail of compost behind him to lead Gardaí to the man’s home nearby, a court has heard.
*The assault took place in August 2023. A CONVICTED cattle rustler in conflict with his farmer sister over land assaulted her after she told him ‘go home and take your tablets’, a court has heard.
