*Mark Hayes. A 35-year old Shannon man with a ’serious streak of violence’ who told his then girlfriend while she lay on the floor covered in blood ‘look at you now b*t*h, you are going to be dead soon’ has been jailed for seven years and one month.
*Photograph: John Mangan A SHANNON man has pleaded guilty to “a very serious assault” on his then girlfriend on St Patrick’s Day that hospitalised her and left her with a broken eye socket, broken ribs and a collapsed lung.
*The trial is to continue today. A MAJOR hospital has told a senior Garda that it is “100 percent likely” that a hospital patient report on an alleged victim in a false imprisonment and assault causing harm case will be ready for court on Tuesday (today).
*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.
*The protestors in Shannon Airport. SHANNON AIRPORT had to be closed for 35 minutes to air traffic on March 30th as a result of an alleged incursion into the runway area by three anti-war activists, a court has heard.
*Photograph: John Mangan A SHANNON man accused of a ‘very serious’ assault on his then girlfriend on St Patrick’s Day that allegedly left her with a broken eye socket, broken ribs and a collapsed lung is now also charged with her false imprisonment.
*Aidan Park. A SHANNON man accused of a ‘very serious’ assault on his then girlfriend on St Patrick’s Day that allegedly left her with a broken eye socket, broken ribs and a collapsed lung is to face further charges, a court has heard.
*Both cases will go before the Circuit Court. A CLARE woman sustained a broken eye socket, stitches to her face, staples to her head, a collapsed lung that required to be drained, bruises to her body and broken ribs arising from an alleged assault on St Patrick’s Day by her then boyfriend.
*Shannon Airport. A JUDGE has imposed a two month prison sentence on a US green card holder for falsely using an Irish passport in a bid to gain entry for a child to the United States.
*Photograph: John Mangan A JUDGE has described a father who abandoned his two school-going children to travel to Singapore to a woman he met online as ‘callous’ and ‘cowardly’.
