Dyeing for Credit joins Today FM’s shave or dye
Fri, Feb 22, 2013
Nearly everyone knows about Today FM's shave or dye campaign and everyone knows someone whose life has been affected by cancer, so this year Castlebar Credit Union decided to do something to raise some much needed funds for this worthy cause.
Read more ...Year long wait for funding for Mayo north east groups to end
Fri, Feb 22, 2013
A resolution has been achieved and the reinstatement of the Rural Development Programme (RDP) in northeast Mayo will come on stream in the near future, it has been revealed. Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony told the Mayo Advertiser yesterday afternoon that Minister Phil Hogan has given the go ahead following the conclusion of an investigation into governance issues in the Mayo North East LEADER Partnership (MNELP) last year.
Read more ...Castlebar’s hospice shop official opening
Fri, Feb 22, 2013
Mayo Roscommon Hospice invites the public to the official opening of its new hospice shop on New Antrim Street, Castlebar (in SuperValu car park beside Beverly Hills and Annette Gerald’s).
Read more ...O’Mahony criticises maternity benefit charges for men by health insurers
Fri, Feb 22, 2013
Private health insurers are charging men for maternity benefit even though they know that men will never avail of the benefits. The policy is unfair according to Mayo Fine Gael TD, John O’Mahony who has asked the Minister for Health, Dr James Reilly to request the Competition Authority to look into the matter.
Read more ...Final year student disqualified for driving with no insurance
Fri, Feb 22, 2013
A Lithuanian man who is in his final year studying in GMIT was disqualified from driving for a year and fined €600 for driving without insurance at Castlebar District Court this week.
Read more ...Probation report ordered on man who trespassed into girls’ accommodation block
Fri, Feb 22, 2013
A probation report was ordered on Nathan Dooner, Lislea Cottage, Aughboy, Killoe, Co Longford, who pleaded guilty to a charge of trespassing at an adventure centre where he was a trainee, at Castlebar District Court this week.
Read more ...Man had €1,500 worth of drugs in his home
Fri, Feb 22, 2013
A 24-year-old man from Balla who bought methylethcathinone (MEC) over the internet told Castlebar District Court this week that he became addicted to the “feeling of euphoria” but now wants help to deal with his drug problem.
Read more ...‘Grass’ found in a stone wall
Fri, Feb 22, 2013
A man who hid cannabis in a stone wall in rural Mayo was before Castlebar District Court this week.
Read more ...One year disqualification for drink driving
Fri, Feb 22, 2013
A Galway man who pleaded guilty to drink driving was disqualified from driving for one year in Castlebar District Court this week. Garda Peter Sarsfield told the court that he was on duty on May 5 2012 at 7am, when a report of a car going off the road at Streamstown, Claremorris, was phoned into the station. He told the court he went to investigate and stopped a car being driven by Patrick Lawrence, 69 Riverdale, Oranmore, Co Galway, at 7.20am. He administered a road side breath test which Lawrence failed and then arrested him and brought him to Claremorris Garda Station, where Lawrence gave a blood sample which returned a reading of 87mlgs per 100ml of blood.
Read more ...Man with ninety nine year driving ban stole car
Fri, Feb 22, 2013
A man who has a 99 year driving disqualification was before Castlebar District Court this week for the unauthorised taking of a car and driving while disqualified.
Read more ...Man told gardaí to ‘f**k off’
Fri, Feb 22, 2013
A man who was abusive to gardaí when they were called to a disturbance in a residential area was before Castlebar District Court this week.
Read more ...Woman sent forward for trial on forty five theft charges
Fri, Feb 22, 2013
An Aghamore woman was sent forward for trial to the Circuit Criminal Court on 45 separate theft charges this week. At Castlebar District Court on Tuesday the court heard evidence from Sgt Regina Curley that she served the book of evidence on Caroline Barrett, Raith, Aghamore, Co Mayo, earlier that morning outlining the 45 charges of theft from an individual between December 5 2008 and January 21 2012.
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