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A man who is charged in connection with a shooting in the city last April which resulted in another man losing part of his hand, was further remanded in custody following his appearance before Galway District Court this week.

A champion weightlifter will face trial tomorrow in connection with a shooting in the city last April in which another man lost part of his hand.

A champion weight-lifter, who is charged in connection with a shooting in the city last April which resulted in another man losing part of his hand, was refused bail and was remanded in continuing custody at the holiday sittings of Galway District Court this week.

A witness has told a jury that the man accused of a shooting in Galway city earlier this year arrived at the witness’s house that same night asking him to mind a backpack containing a “sawn-off shotgun”, to burn a car used in the incident, and to act as an alibi.

Records taken from the mobile phone of a man suspected of carrying out a shooting earlier this year have shown that there were at least two of the calls made near to the time and in close proximity to the incident.

The trial of a Co Galway publican, charged with the sexual abuse of a young man during the 1970s, which was due to start at Galway Circuit Criminal Court yesterday (Wednesday) has been deferred to next year.

The champion weightlifter who destroyed a man’s hand with a point-blank shotgun blast has been jailed for 12 years.

Since October 2007 Galway has suddenly lost that safe and secure feeling that it once held in such esteem. The vicious death of 17-year-old Swiss language student Manuela Riedo , whose body was discovered on wasteland at Lough Atalia on October 8, changed Galway city and its surrounding areas.