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I detect one tiny slice of silver lining on our dark clouds. A recent Red C opinion poll found that 58 per cent of respondents would vote Yes if there was a second Lisbon Treaty held this year.

Drugs with an estimated street value of €25,000 have been seized by Athlone Gardai and three people arrested this week, following a series of planned searches in the town.

A teenage girl who was given six months detention this week after attempting to hand over drugs to a person held in custody during court proceedings claimed that she only did so because of fear.

Though he resisted the temptation when he heard there was a street in Athlone called Preaching Lane, Judge John Neilan didn’t hesitate to issue the maximum fine for illegal parking to a woman who failed to answer her summons this week (February 18).

There was devastating news for employees of Athlone’s Sasha store this week as it was announced that it is to cease trading in Golden Island Shopping Centre.

Allegations of unfair dismissal against the social services centre in Castlebar have emerged following RTÉ’s Prime Time programme which aired on Tuesday night and which investigated complaints against FÁS made by the chairman of Castlebar Social Services.

The case against a 27 year-old mother of three accused of passing drugs onto a man by kissing him was this week dismissed.

A Claremorris woman was sentenced to two four month prison sentences for a spate of thefts and a public order offence.

A 26-year-old Polish man who lead the gardaí on a 160km chase through the south Mayo countryside and switched his lights off on a side road as he tried to evade the gardaí was fined a total of €1,000 and banned from driving for six years in Ballinrobe District Court last week.

Lease & Live, a new company in Galway, is determined to spark life back into the property sector with a fantastic new initiative. This scheme offers prospective home owners the chance to rent their dream home for up to three years with the opportunity to purchase the property at the end of the lease with all finances paid to be deducted as down payment.