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Speaking at the launch of the No Name Club in Islandeady, Castlebar, Fine Gael spokesman on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs Michael Ring indicated that the new National Drugs Strategy should incorporate alcohol.

You can’t beat experience or class. Despite the flamboyance and arrogance of youth, the old experienced warhorse who’s been there, done that, invariably realises that something clever is required if his team is going to prevail. And so it was last Sunday with Charlestown edging past Castlebar, just when some might have felt a shock was on the cards. In Crossmolina’s case in our semi-final defeat to Knockmore it looked as though we had too much experience and not enough youthful exuberance. Last Sunday Castlebar had plenty of youthful energy around the field, but when the game was there to be won, Charlestown had that little bit of guile and know-how to close out the deal. With all their experience they knew how to win this game and advance to yet another county final.

Music fans from all over Connacht are planning to congregate in the Wyatt Hotel in Westport for an event that is being billed as the Charity Night of the Stars on Monday December 15 at 9pm.

A Mayo man has pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to pretending to work for a recruitment company to get free hotels and a chauffeur driven car.

The Gypsy Jazz Quartet celebrates the musical genius of one of the true jazz greats, Django Reinhardt, in a unique multimedia presentation The Django Story at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday January 15 at 8pm. The Django Story is a multimedia performance complete with live music that celebrates the colourful life and music of genius Gypsy jazz guitarist Django Reinhardt and his band, from its roots in the clubs of 1930s Paris.

A man who is currently serving a prison sentence was convicted of two drink driving offences, which occurred within four months of each other, at Ballina District Court this week.

From March 9 to March 12 Mayo businesses will be attending Club Caife, a networking event that will give local businesses an opportunity to network with each other in an informal setting and also to learn about opportunities that are available to market their business in a unique way using the Irish language.

Judge Geoffrey Browne gave a man with a long history of convictions one last chance in Ballyhaunis District Court this week. Stephen King, Apartment 2, Pinewoods, Station Road, Castlebar, pleaded guilty to criminal damage charges after he threw a gas cylinder through a shop window in Ballyhaunis. The court heard that on February 13 2009 King entered Moran’s shop in Ballyhaunis and bought a packet of cigarettes and handed over a €10 note and was given his change. He came back a short time later and said he had handed in a €50 note, when he was told it was €10 he became aggressive and abusive, which culminated in King going outside and throwing a gas cylinder through the window of the shop causing €340 worth of damage.

Fianna Fáil has confirmed the selection of Mickey Feeney on the party ticket to contest the Mayo County Council election in June.

A Northern Irish man living in Mayo was given a stark warning by Judge Mary Devins that if he was convicted for drug offences for a third time in a district court he could face a prison sentence.