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A Kilkenny man who went missing recently was found safe and well in Kilcar in County Donegal.

An online petition with more than 40 signatures has called on Castlebar Town Council and Mayo County Council to provide a skate park for the young people of Castlebar. The organisers have pointed to the skate parks already in existence in other towns around the country. Councillor Harry Barrett has rowed in behind the campaign and is promising to bring the issue up at future town council meetings.

A company owned by the Rabbitt family from Oranmore has completed the purchase of Highland Radio in Donegal from Denis O'Brien's Communicorp Group.

A minute’s silence was held at Castlebar District Court on Wednesday after Judge Mary Devins informed the court that she had just learned about the sad passing of Judge Derek McVeigh, who was a moveable judge on the District Court Bench.

It will take exactly three hours to cover the 122 miles it is between Castlebar and Letterkenny according to the AA on its website. So to make the 2.30pm throw in in comfortable time Mayo supporters will be leaving home from the county town not long after 10.30am on a Saturday. While Saturday evening games have become the norm for the National League, this weekend Mayo have the unusual fixture of a Saturday afternoon game against Donegal. The change in the fixture is something that the Mayo manager, while not overly happy with, will have to deal with. “It’s a strange one all right, when we heard that the game was not going to be played under lights we assumed it would be switched to a Sunday. But as far as I know it’s to do with TV rights that the game has to be on Saturday. It’s far from an ideal time for supporters to make a trip to Donegal and we need all the supporters we can at the games, and the people of Mayo want to come out and support us. We also believed that the game would then be played in Ballyshannon, but it was moved further away to Letterkenny, and this was all only decided last week, which was very late.”

A man who broke a car window and assaulted his neighbour was granted bail yesterday despite Garda fears that he would interfere with “terrified” witnesses and that he would fail to turn up to court.

Workers at the Celestica plant in Parkmore were waiting to hear their fate last night as the company prepared to hold a general meeting with all 380 day and night shift staff in the facility. It was widely expected that the company, which announced cuts to working hours last week, was preparing to cut its Galway workforce in a bid to offset a fall in revenue.

Twenty-nine-year-old Mayo garda Enda Hughes, who died following a fall while celebrating a stag night in Letterkenny, was laid to rest in St Mary of the Rosary Church in Cong on Tuesday.

Play time will be a lot more colourful for 12 schools North and South of the border when they each benefit from a €4,600 playground makeover thanks to the Ulster Bank Supergrounds scheme. Gael Scoil Osar, Loughboy, Kilkenny, is one of six Republic of Ireland schools selected to receive a playground redevelopment.

A garda who was on life support at Letterkenny General Hospital yesterday (Thursday) after he was struck by a stolen car is believed to be 29-year-old Garda Robert McCallion from Swinford.