*Photograph: Joe Buckley A HEALTHY teenager in State care must spend the weekend in a major hospital “as a last resort” after Gardaí were unable to transport him to a TUSLA emergency placement in Dublin due to the motorway fuel protests, a court has heard.
*The bag of coal was presented at Corofin Garda Station in February. A judge has freed a Corofin man who spent five weeks on remand in Limerick prison after he presented a stolen €15 bag of coal at his local Garda Station after phoning a Garda beforehand to say that he was going to carry …
*No communion dress has been bought. A ‘deeply religious’ mother currently in prison wept in court after a judge refused her request to defer her child’s First Holy Communion until later in the year.
*Shannon based Asba Meats owe over €576,000. FARMERS in Kilnamona and Kilrush are owed over €106,000 by a Shannon based meat operator.
*Shannon Airport. BY ALLOWING Shannon Airport to be used as a transit point for the US military, the Government of Ireland has failed to uphold its duty to prevent genocide.
*Photograph: Arthur Ellis. ONE cottage at the Trump owned Doonbeg resort has sold for €895,000 against the background of record numbers signing up to join the luxury resort.
*Darren Cassidy. TWO OF the four Clare men charged in relation to the alleged robbery of Carrigaholt post office in January are to enter signed pleas of guilty.
*Cahercon. THREE Clare men have been hit with cumulative fines of €1,275 concerning the possession of one unlawfully captured 60cm long ‘fine salmon’ in waters at the River Shannon in June of last year.
*The Ukrainian man received State benefits for seven months while he lived in Scotland. A 29-year old Ukrainian man who fled to Co Clare from the war in Ukraine in 2022 took advantage of the warm welcome he received from the State when illegally claiming Jobseeker’s allowance while couch-surfing in Scotland for seven months.
*Corofin. A COROFIN man presented a stolen €15 bag of coal at his local Garda Station after phoning a Garda beforehand to say that he was going to carry out the theft, it has been alleged in court.