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The Ford Transit, consistently Ireland’s best selling van, turns 45 this month.

The Ford Transit, consistently Ireland’s best selling van, turns 45 this month.

A 21-year-old NUIG student, who hopes to join the army, was before Ballina District Court this week for being intoxicated in a public place.

Apart from the scare over phantom parachutists, the first large-scale military exercise involving Seamus O’ Brien’s LSF (Local Security Force) Group in the Callan district followed shortly after the uniforms arrived at the local courthouse. On a spring Sunday morning, the lads were lined up for a specially convened parade on Callan’s Fair Green.

Westmeath County Council is to correspond with both Columb Barracks and the Department of Defence after the issue of “constant littering and loitering” on the Camp Field, Mullingar was raised last week.

Lá Sugradh, a free Family fun/play day took place last Saturday in THE Castle Park. Organised by Kilkenny County Childcare Committee with partners, Kilkenny Castle, OPW, Kilkenny County Council, Kilkenny Sports and Recreation Partnership and HSE, the event was a rip roaring success according to many of the hundreds of families who attended. The event was hosted to promote outdoor fun as part of the fortnight of events to celebrate National Play Day.

Last week I mentioned Mary Hanafin, Minister for Tourism, Culture and Sport. To be honest, if I’d been asked in a pub quiz what was Mary Hanafin the minister for I wouldn’t have had a clue. Thanks to Google the information was readily available.

It is a fact that when few people had a job in Galway the late Christopher (Christy) Dooley of Renmore Park, had many. They were all of an amazing variety. One of them was a factory on the Mervue Industrial estate where he made parts for German railway engines. He had a specialised scrap business in Munster Avenue, the site of the old family forge, where he recycled aeroplane parts and exported them to Spain.

Two sisters who beat another woman as she attempted to get into a taxi were both given four month prison sentences at a special sitting of the District Court this week (April 30), but had them both suspended for two years.

An 18-year-old man, who is considering a career in the Army, was before Ballinrobe District Court last week following €250 worth of criminal damage he caused to a car when he jumped on it and kicked in a window.