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The new primary health care centre in Tuam must not come at the expense of health and psychiatric services elsewhere in County Galway, a Tuam based TD has warned.

Almost as many women as men are seeking help for their anger issues at a Knock based counselling service.

Psychiatric services in Westmeath are to benefit from the addition of eight senior staff this year, it was revealed this week.

Gardaí investigating the murder of two brothers in their home on New Antrim Street in the early hours of Wednesday morning continued questioning a 26-year-old man yesterday evening (Thursday). At the time of going to print the man had not been charged but was being detained at Castlebar Garda Station under section 4 of the Criminal Justice Act where he could be questioned for up to 24 hours. It is believed he has lived in Ballina and and more recently in Castlebar and is known to the gardaí and the psychiatric services.

A man who assaulted an elderly woman after failing to take medication for his psychological problems and consuming alcohol has been given a five month suspended sentence.

Mayo General Hospital is under huge pressure this week as staff experience increased demand for services from members of the public.

Pouring rain and wintry weather conditions did not prevent a hardy group of protesters from gathering at Market Square, Castlebar, on Wednesday last to rally against the handover of €1.25 billion of taxpayers’ money to fund unsecured Anglo bondholders.

An 47-year-old man who sexually assaulted a woman in her 30s as she worked in a newsagents in Ballina was sentenced to jail for five months at this week’s sitting of Ballina District Court.

A 25-year-old Belcarra man who drove customers out of a Castlebar pub, after he stood on the bar counter and smashed glasses around them, was in Castlebar District Court on Wednesday to face criminal damage and public order charges.

Four defendants were before a special sitting of Castlebar District Court on Monday for a brawl which occurred in Castlebar town where a claw hammer, hurley, and vice grip were brandished in the middle of the street, and criminal damage and assault was committed. Judge Kevin Kilrane said that this “mayhem” on the busy streets of the county town was a “total disgrace” and put decent people in fear.