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Man sentenced for damaging electric gates in Kilcolgan
Galway Bay fm newsroom – A row over money between two former business partners led to a 36-year-old city man being sentenced to two months in prison for damaging electric gates.
Jonathan King, a father of three from 61 An Sean Bhaile, Doughiska, appeared before Galway Circuit Criminal Court.
He pleaded guilty to damaging the gates at Hazel Lodge, the home of Donal O’Connor in Kilcolgan, on December 5th, 2012.
He also pleaded guilty to driving without insurance on the same date.
At King’s sentence hearing, Detective Gerry Carroll gave evidence that King and a Michael O’Reilly went to Mr O’Connor’s home.
O’Reilly buzzed the intercom at the gates to be let in but was not admitted.
He then scaled the wall and a scuffle broke out between him and O’Connor near the house.
O’Connor got the better of O’Reilly in the scuffle and he escorted O’Reilly out to the gates.
On O’Reilly’s command, King reversed the Mercedes jeep he was driving into the gates, forcing them open.
Both men then drove away and went to a pub in Kilcolgan.
Det Carroll said Judge Mary Fahy already dealt with O’Reilly, who has since served a two-month sentence for his part in the incident.
Senior Counsel Bernard Madden, defending said O’Reilly had been O’Connor’s business partner.
He was owed a significant amount of money and on hearing O’Connor had been declared bankrupt, he became worried about his investment.
Det Carroll said King had 69 previous convictions, mostly for motoring offences, with two for drugs, two for criminal damage and two for theft.
He said King was currently serving a five-month sentence for driving without insurance.
Judge McCabe sentenced King to two months for criminal damage and disqualified him from driving for two years on the insurance charge.
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Farrell says eviction ban lift will be “judged harshest” of Government’s bad housing policies
Galway Bay fm newsroom – Galway West TD Mairead Farrell claims the lifting of the eviction ban will be judged the harshest of all the Government’s bad housing policies.
She told the Dáil it stands head and shoulders above all the terrible housing decisions this and the previous Government have made over the past decade.
She told Housing Minister Daragh O’ Brien that the real sticking point is that this decision was made in the full knowledge of the chaos it will cause.
Galway Bay fm newsroom – The number of homeless people in emergency accommodation has increased by almost 24 per cent in a year.
There are now almost 11,800 people homeless, including 258 people in County Galway.
According to the latest figures from the Department of Housing 11,742 people, including 3,373 children, now find themselves homeless.
It’s an increase of almost 24 per cent on the same month for last year.
The data, for the week of February 20th-26th, show there were 8,369 adults in emergency accommodation, an increase of 23 per cent on the figure for February last year.
In Dublin, there are 8,588 people, including 2,576 children, living in homelessness.
Meanwhile this month’s figures, when compared to January, remain relatively unchanged.
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