*Danny Harty. A JUDGE has imposed a four year-four month prison term on the get-away driver in the attempted murder of a Shannon man out celebrating his 21st birthday during a music festival in a small Clare town.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley A 25-year old Shannon man who survived a murder attempt on his life has escaped jail after he told a judge that he was carrying around a stanley knife in his local town for his own protection.
*Shannon Town Centre. Photograph: Joe Buckley A 24-year old Shannon man lunged at a 16 year old Ukrainian boy with a large kitchen knife in a violent disorder incident in Shannon, a court has heard.
A JUDGE has imposed an additional 10 months in prison on a 29 year old man for a ‘premeditated’ and ‘vicious’ knife assault on a then 17 year old that left the teenager with 100 stitches across his face.
*Photograph: John Mangan A 27 YEAR old Clare man today appeared in court charged with attempted murder and directing the activities of a criminal organisation.
*The incident took place at Topaz in Shannon which has since been renamed Circle K. Photograph: Joe Buckley A successful target of the Criminal Assets Bureau (CAB), John McCormack has narrowly avoided prison for his role in an altercation described by a judge as ‘two grand-dads fighting over a baby”.
