*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 jury returned their verdict on Tuesday. A JURY has found a Kilmihil man guilty of the Facebook harassment of a local garda.
*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).
*The trial continues on Tuesday. THERE IS NO evidence that a West Clare man accused of harassing a Garda through anonymous posts on Facebook had any grudges against the Gardaí.
*The matter was before Ennis Circuit Court. A 33-year old man told Gardai ‘F**k off or I will bite your f**king jaw off’ before biting an Ennis-based Garda on the hand.
*Photograph: John Mangan A JUDGE has granted an adjournment to the State in the trial of a Shannon man who is charged with the assault causing harm and false imprisonment of his then girlfriend on St Patrick’s Day this year.
*Niall Gilligan. Photograph: Joe Buckley THE STATE is seeking priority in the fixing of a trial date for the assault trial of former All Star and Clare All-Ireland winning hurler Niall Gilligan, a court has heard.
