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Career criminals who repeatedly commit burglaries should get ten-year minimum sentences, according to one local councillor.

As the Non-Fatal Offences Against the Person (Amendment) (Stalking) Bill 2021 has passed through the Seanad, Fianna Fáil Senator Lisa Chambers is calling on members of the Dáil to pass the bill without delay. Senator Chambers brought forward the legislation in July 2021 that sought to introduce an offence of Stalking into Irish law.

The volatile nature of politics is such that change for the big office holders may only ever be around the corner, but at the outset of 2022 we find ourselves in the unusual position of being guaranteed a change of Taoiseach this year, and this in turn may have a knock-on effect in other areas.

Local Fine Gael public representatives, Deputy Peter Burke and Cllr John Dolan, have welcomed the continuing progress of refurbishment work to Athlone Garda station.

The Personal Injuries Assessment Board (PIAB) has reported that with the average injury payout reduced from just under €24,000 to just over €14,000, the insurance industry must not be allowed to pocket these savings and must instead pass them on to their customers, according to local Independent Deputy, Denis Naughten.

Covid - not just about crushing the curve - continues to throw us a few curved balls.

Calls have been made for an enhanced garda presence in communities across Galway city following the discovery of drug paraphernalia, including a needle, in the small astro pitch at Corrib Park.

It could be almost a decade before the old courthouse in Tuam, which has fallen into dereliction, is replaced by a new building.

Professor Donncha O’Connell of the School of Law, NUI Galway has been appointed by the Government to an independent expert group to review the Offences Against the State Acts.

A total of 4,000 people will complete their citizenship process by the end of March, but this still leaves 20,000 people waiting for their applications to be processed - and many of them are frontline workers.