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Cyclopes on our roads — which are vehicles with one failed headlight — are presenting a danger according to road safety officer Noel Gibbons, who said that “sadly, it is far too evident that many motorists are not checking that both of their vehicle’s headlights are working correctly.”

A 20-year-old man with 67 previous convictions was sentenced to six months in St Patrick’s Institution by Judge Mary Devins at Castlebar District Court on Wednesday, after the Ballinrobe man was convicted of five criminal damage charges, theft, and the unlawful taking of an MPV.

A Castlebar man who assaulted a member of the public who was reporting an incident to the gardaí at Castlebar Garda Station, was sentenced to three months in jail by Judge Mary Devins at Castlebar District Court this week.

A Galway man, with 15 previous convictions, was before Castlebar District Court on Wednesday after he removed two planks of scaffolding from the Castlebar Garda compound and placed them in his trailer after he retrieved his impounded car.

A 33-year-old unemployed carpenter from Castlebar was given a three month prison sentence for drunk driving and driving with no insurance. Stephen Munnelly, Rocklands, Castlebar pleaded guilty to all charges in Castlebar District Court this week.

Recently a number of business people in the west of Ireland have had sums of money stolen from their premises by people using distraction techniques. These crimes usually happen at rural shops, post offices, etc. The method used is that a group of foreign nationals, usually six or seven and mixed in gender, enter a rural business. Sometimes they have children with them. Some of the group will engage the staff in conversation about different products on sale while one of the gang, usually a female, slips into the office or private part of the building. This individual will then search for cash and steal whatever is found and in most cases the amount is substantial.

A man from Mayo Abbey who, on seeing a Garda checkpoint, reversed his van around the corner, and then failed a breath test, was convicted and disqualified from driving at Castlebar District Court on Wednesday.

A man in his 40s who drove off at speed from a Garda checkpoint was convicted and disqualified at Castlebar District Court this week, for not providing a sample after he was subsequently arrested on the suspicion of drink driving.

A 29 year old Ballyhaunis man was given a two year driving ban after pleading guilty to drink driving in Ballyhaunis District Court this week. Garda Leslie McMaster told the court that he stopped Michael Burke of Tullaghane, Ballyhaunis, at Curragh, Cloonfad, at 1am on the night of September 28 2008. He arrested him on suspicion of drunk driving and conveyed him to Castlebar Garda Station where McMaster gave a breath sample which gave a reading of 52mg of alcohol per 100ml of breath.