*Shannon Airport. PARENTS of three 23-year old pro-Palestinian activists charged with the criminal damage of a US military plane at Shannon Airport last Saturday provided independent sureties to allow the release of their three adult children from prison.
*Photograph: Joe Buckley FURTHER charges have been brought against three female pro-Palestinian activists concerning an alleged security breach at Shannon Airport in May.
*Páidi Fitzpatrick. Photograph: Gerard O’Neill. A 38-year old Dublin man has appeared in court in connection with the alleged harassment of ex Clare hurler, Páidí Fitzpatrick over a nine month period.
*Michael Lorigan. A 32-year old West Clare woman charged in connection with the dangerous driving causing the death of ‘inspirational’ school teacher, Michael Lorigan (70) is to go forward to the Circuit Court on a signed guilty plea, a court was told on Tuesday.
*Laurel Lodge. A CLARE MAN charged in connection with the alleged street assault of a retired District Court judge has been on remand in custody for two months with directions in the case yet to be made by the DPP, a court has heard.
*The alleged theft of beer occurred at Dunnes Stores in Ennis. A CLARE man charged in connection with the street assault of a retired district court judge has been further charged.
*Gardaí detected the Tipperary teenager going at speed at the Killaloe/Ballina bridge. A judge commented ‘Mother of God tonight’ in court after an 18 year old school boy accused of dangerous driving told him that he was due to start his Leaving Certificate exams.
*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.
*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.
*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.