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A local politician is urging the HSE West to openly discuss its cost-cutting proposals with the public before they are set in stone.

Despite promises of work and AA attendance, an inveterate drunk with 150 previous convictions was returned to prison to serve out a District Court sentence after his appeal was turned down in the Circuit Court at its most recent sitting in Athlone (February 23).

Over the past few weekends there has been much made of the huge decline in spectator interest in the Railway Cup.

Over the past few weekends there has been much made of the huge decline in spectator interest in the Railway Cup.

A Roscommon man, with psychological difficulties, received a suspended sentence at Galway District Court this week for failing to pay a taxi driver €350 after hiring him to go to Cork and back.

A woman from Castlerea who stole €67 worth of clothing from Dunne’s Stores in Ballina was back in Ballina on Tuesday as she appeared before Judge Mary Devins at the District Court sitting.

“Do you know you I am? I will have your job,” screamed a champagne guzzling barman whose snobby and shocking abuse of a garda on New Year’s Day last ended in his being brought before Galway District Court and fined €700.

A man who appeared on the court list for Claremorris this week under two different names was convicted and fined for motoring offences and criminal damage. Peteris Liseckis, who also goes by Janis Tisanous, of 4 College Road, Boyle, Co Roscommon, pleaded guilty to all charges in court.

An uncle and nephew facing a number of car theft charges were unsuccessful when they tried to use a mother's anniversary mass and a girlfriend as excuses to avoid being banned from both Athlone and Roscommon as conditions of bail at the District Court this week (June 3).

Those who made the trek to Salthill early last Sunday to catch a glimpse of this year’s batch of Mayo minors after getting a glowing recommendation following their destruction of Galway in the Connacht semi-final, will have been rightly scratching their heads at full time. It would be hard to imagine any two sides coming together in a provincial final and producing a worse game of football. Mayo got a second chance at the death, thanks to captain Aidan Walsh who tapped over a free manufactured by Cillian O’Connor a minute into injury time, which was sweet relief for Mayo. Roscommon players and supporters will be scratching their own heads at how they contrived to not win a game. They just avoided hitting double the amount of wides to scores they got on the board (15 in total), but also dropped a number of efforts short of the target or so wild that they managed to drift off target and still not cross the end line.