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A Fermanagh man celebrating a stag night attempted to get behind the wheel of a taxi by pulling at the driver’s jumper in an effort to get him out of the vehicle, the Galway District Court heard last Monday.

A five month sentence has been imposed on a man who violently resisted arrest by kicking out, attempted to get a meal for free, caused annoyance at a hostel, and then failed to turn up to court.

A Galway man who had threatened to kill a garda after being arrested on foot of a bench warrant has been jailed for seven months for a burglary at a Salthill night club and for failing to appear in court.

A woman, with serious alcohol difficulties, received a four months suspended sentence yesterday for the breach of a barring order.

With the impending opening of the new swimming pool in Claremorris, Fianna Fáil councillor Pat McHugh questioned the feasibility of moving the bus stops in the town from their current locations beside the swimming pool and the church to beside the train station, at this week’s local electoral area committee.

Planning applications were down over a third in the Claremorris electoral area for the three month period of January to March 2009 compared to the same period in 2008. Senior planner for Mayo County Council John McMyler gave the elected members the number on foot of a request at the previous month’s meetings. He informed the members: “In the first three months of 2008 there were 500 planning applications on file in this area, and this year for the same period there are 314 applications, that’s a drop of around 37 per cent.”

A three month suspended sentence was imposed on a teenager who was found handling a stolen film camera and boom microphone valued at €5,000.

A Bohermore man who was so “plastered” drunk that he managed to wander into a house unnoticed by the frightened tenants, only to fall asleep in the kitchen, was fined €500 at Galway District Court this week.

A Scottish man, known to the Garda Drugs Squad, was sentenced to five months in jail for possession and drug dealing offences.

The big loser in the shake up of the electoral area map last year was the Ballinrobe area, who have had their autonomy as an electoral area usurped and have been consumed into a newly expanded Claremorris electoral area.