A COUPLE who allegedly burned down a family home in Castledermot in June with a petrol-soaked teddy bear and then stole a car after crashing their getaway vehicle were both sent for circuit court trial.

A DEFENDANT who pleaded guilty to stealing a candlestick from a church and a cash box from a farmers’ market was last week given a chance in Carlow District Court to do some voluntary work in St Clare’s Hospitality Kitchen.

When he got to his destination, the defendant got from the car, made off without paying the €100 fare and ran through a housing estate.

It had been alleged that Mr Quinn undertook a learner motorcyclist on the day in question.

It had been alleged that Mr Quinn undertook a learner motorcyclist on the day in question

A MAN who sent threatening messages to his partner claiming that he would kill her and that he would have her “dead and buried” and no-one would find her will be sentenced later.

TWO brothers who went on a Christmas Day ‘crime spree’ involving the arson of a car and a serious assault that left a man in his 60s with a traumatic brain injury have had two years knocked off their prison sentences upon appeal.

A MAN who sexually assaulted both a man and a woman on the Carlow-Athy train was sentenced to six months in prison for each of the offences. However, the judge ruled that both would run concurrently.

A CARLOW businessman has gone on trial charged with handling a large assortment of stolen power tools and later providing false invoices to gardaí in order to prove ownership of those tools.

A HACKETSTOWN woman was last week served with a book of evidence in connection with 33 charges, including theft and forgery, and was sent forward to appear before the current sitting of Carlow Circuit Court.

The judge said there had been “a monumental breach of trust” by the accused

An unusual but effective approach

ISPCA senior inspector Fiona Conlon discovered one dog dead and two others severely malnourished when she called to her house in February last year

The defendant denied the charge

The defendant was described her as “a family lady” with children and grandchildren living locally

The shower in the bathroom had been left running, resulting in flooding

"I’ve never been treated so bad by a guard in my life"

“You clearly have an issue with alcohol,” the judge told the 39-year old woman.

A “very sad and very serious matter”

“It became evident to me he wasn’t looking for help"