*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’.
*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”.