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Legal history will be made in March, as the Supreme Court will sit outside a courthouse for the first time since it returned to the Four Courts in 1932. This will also be the first time it sits in Galway and only the third time the court will sit outside of Dublin.

“This fine building, which is superior to most provincial seats of justice, stands at Newtown-Smith, on the site of the ancient and venerable abbey of the Franciscans, which by the Charter of Charles II ‘is to be and remain part of the County of Galway forever’. It was commenced in 1812, and on 1st of April, 1815, was opened for the reception of the then going judges of assize.

STEVE MURPHY and Javier Peña, the US Drug Enforcement Administration agents who led the manhunt of Colombian drug lord and Medellín Cartel leader, Pablo Escobar, and whose actions inspired the hit Netflix series, Narcos, return to Galway.

On Wednesday at Castlebar Circuit Court, Judge Rory McCabe imposed a fine of €500,000 on Harrington Concrete and Quarries ULC for three separate breaches of health and safety legislation.

A Galway TD is demanding the Minister for Children, Katherine Zappone to outline what measures have been put in place to ensure the “huge failures” to act on youth crimes, “will never occur again”.

Burglary on Monivea Road

A man died tragically on Wednesday near Ballindine when part of a roof on a shed he was demolishing fell on him. His remains were taken from the scene to Mayo University Hospital where a post mortem was due to take place yesterday (Thursday, January 10).

A man in his fifties was being detained in Roscommon last evening in connection with incidents which took place in Strokestown just before Christmas.

“I built a house 10 years ago but structural problems only appeared in the last 2 years. Am I out of time to sue for negligence?”

Gardai are appealing for information following a robbery in the early hours of Sunday December 16.