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A case involving a man in his 40s who was before Ballina District Court this week, for drink driving and dangerous driving charges, was contested for three hours before the Iarnród Éireann employee was convicted of both charges.

The jury in the trial of the man accused of murdering Kilbeggan horse trader Christy Hanley has heard how the pensioner was found dead in his home having been tied up and beaten.

“If Connaughton had only been named Sue or Seamus or Michael, I’d have had a chance, but to be called Paul, well that killed me in the polls.”

Speaking in that unique east Galway accent of his, defeated FG councillor Michael Finnerty summed up the strength of the Paul Connaughton brand when he said to me afterwards “If young Conner-ton had only been named Sue or Seamus or Michael, but anything but Paul, I might have had a chance.”

In the election count of 1991, three new bright councillors were elected onto Galway County Council. They beamed with pride as they marched into their first council meeting at the old Council chamber in the former County Buildings.

A licensee of a bar in Hollymount was convicted and fined €250 at Ballinrobe District Court sitting in Castlebar last Friday after a number of people were heard on the premises at 4.30am.

The committee of the New Inn Mummers festival confirmed this week that the annual staging of the event will take place in the New Inn leisure centre on Saturday January 2, and Sunday January 3.

The annual mummer’s festival which takes place in New Inn, Ballinasloe, on Saturday night has been hailed as a significant traditional event in the country’s entertainment calendar which has developed over the past three decades.