Former Ryanair pilot charged with €10m Meelick drug seizure
A FORMER Ryanair pilot, charged in connection with the possession of more than €10m worth of drugs, is not a suitable case for legal aid, a court was told.
A FORMER Ryanair pilot, charged in connection with the possession of more than €10m worth of drugs, is not a suitable case for legal aid, a court was told.
*Trevor Quinn. A JUDGE has jailed a teenage ‘Born Again Christian’ for 14 months for an ‘outrageous’ broad daylight machete attack on a busy Ennis street that left his victim requiring 40 stitches to a facial wound.
*Ennis Garda Station. A PRISONER ‘went up in a puff of smoke’ and absconded from Garda custody at Ennis Garda Station during a cigarette break, a court has heard.
*Lahinch Golf Club. RECORD GREEN fee income of €3.3m at Lahinch Golf Club last year contributed to the club making an operating surplus of €1.72m.
*The matter came before Ennis District Court. A COUPLE have been unable to move into their new home near the Clare village of Inagh due to the actions of a neighbouring farmer and self-styled ‘God’s Enforcer’ in blocking the roadway to their home, a court has heard.
*The incident occurred last May. A FATHER lost control when head-butting a GAA coach in front of young children playing hurling at an under-10s training session in Killaloe in May of last year, a court has heard.
*The sentencing took place on Tuesday at Ennis Circuit Court. A judge has jailed a 31 year old Ennis man for three years and five months for threatening a hitch-hiker that he would set him alight after pulling out a plastic bottle full of petrol.
*King Thomond Hotel. A LISDOONVARNA based Direct Provision firm which has received millions of euro in State payments for housing International Protection (IP) applicants has been ordered to pay €7,000 compensation to a Romanian worker who was racially abused by a colleague.
*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.