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Athlone Film Club continues its autumn/winter season on Tuesday October 4 with Oranges and Sunshine, a powerful and deeply moving understated account of a major social injustice that went unreported for many years.

ONE OF the more refreshing delights of bookselling and reading is when a new voice makes itself heard for the first time.

Despite the economic meltdown and the common perception that plans for a health centre in Clonbrusk were fully long-fingered, a local councillor is confident a smaller version is soon going to be built on its earmarked site between Ashdale Grove and the Arcadia retail park.

Mullingar man, Bernard O’Farrell and Cork man Greg Mulcahy have won the first prize in the HSE elder abuse short film competition entitled Open Your Eyes – Open Your Lens. The purpose of the short film competition was to raise awareness of the issue of elder abuse. The HSE invited the public to submit a short film of between 30 to 60 seconds in duration to YouTube based on the theme Open Your Eyes – Open Your Lens.

Parking at Mullingar hospital is worth just under €1,000 a day to the HSE, it was revealed this week.

A former HSE social worker who stole and used bank cards from a client’s family member was given a six months prison sentence, suspended for 12 months, at Ballina District Court this week.

An HSE social worker who stole and used bank cards from a client’s family member was remanded on continuing bail to July 13 for sentencing following her appearance this week at Ballina District Court.

A judge frustrated with the level of inaction shown by the HSE in dealing with a case of a Romanian woman who used two of her children to beg in Athlone suggested the Government should close its childrens’ section as a mark of protest.

A HSE social worker who stole bank cards from a grandmother, and then used the cards to steal €2,000 worth of cash, was before Ballina District Court this week where Judge Mary Devins said “that evil shocks me”.

A 25 years old man who admitted making rude gestures to staff at Brown Thomas and to threatening to put their photos on the internet, has been remanded on bail for the preparation of a probation report.