*Pet rabbits have been used as a means to provoke the man, the Court heard. A JUDGE has granted a Protection Order under the Domestic Violence Act to a man against his ‘rabbit throwing’ wife.
*The man handed in €500,000 in bets. A 23 year old man who turned over an estimated €500,000 in bets on his smart-phone arising from his ‘chronic gambling addiction’ is set to escape a conviction for a ‘money mule’ offence.
*Photograph: John Mangan A 40-year old Clare man sent a lewd image of himself to a female “public figure”, a court has heard.
*A protection order was granted. A JUDGE has granted a five-year Safety Order under the Domestic Violence Act to a woman after hearing that her then partner brandished a loaded shotgun in her direction during a row and also hit her when she was pregnant.
*Photograph: Arthur Ellis CLARE COUNTY Council has been urged to green light plans by the Donald Trump owned Doonbeg golf resort for pickle ball courts and other resort improvements in order to help create more “badly wanted” jobs in west Clare “when rural Ireland is collapsing around us”.
*Photograph: John Mangan A 39-year old Clare woman was sent forward for trial charged in connection with wilfully ill-treating and neglecting three children in her custody in charges spanning a six year period.
*The matter was before the Family Law Court. A BUSINESSMAN urinated on his wife, spat into her face when drunk and punched a pony in the head, it has been alleged in court.
*The accused had been at large since June 2022. AN anti-vaccine activist, Antonio Mureddu is to face trial at the circuit court where he is charged with the assault of a Clare Garda after being ‘at large’ for the last 21 months concerning the case.
*Photograph: John Mangan A JUDGE has told a 49 year old Co Clare man that he faces “a significant custodial sentence” after hearing details of the coercive control and multiple sexual assaults the man carried out on his then wife.
*The late Stephanie Fitzpatrick. A NORTH CLARE man admitted to ‘drinking all day’ at a Christening celebration before crashing his car into a tree that claimed the life of his girlfriend on the main road leading out of the seaside resort of Lahinch two years ago.
