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In the early 1990s the Mayos in Galway were getting so uppity that it was decided that action would be taken. It is believed that Seamus Keating, the legendary Galway city and county manager, and a Tipperary man to boot, was never slow in taking the hard decision. Exasperated by the controls exerted by the Mayos, their prestigious positions in all walks of life in the city, their swagger about the place, and the whingeing by the few Galwegians left on his staff at the unfairness of it all, one day he pressed the red button on his desk.

Now more than ever there is a need for an independent inquiry into the sinking of Pat O’Donnell’s boat the Iona Isle, according to Independent councillor Catherine Connolly.

Never assume your handbag is safe in an unoccupied car - that’s the advice from Kilkenny’s chief superintendent Michael McGarry.

Galway’s two Garda divisions will be united into a single Galway division from Thursday under administrative changes being introduced under the Policing Plan.

Members of the new Kilkenny Joint Policing Committee were delighted to hear that the post of garda sergeant is to be filled at Callan and Johnstown.

The Joint Policing Committee for Westmeath is to be launched on Friday February 20, with a workshop for members of the new committee.

Gardaí have launched a wide-ranging investigation following the death of a young Claregalway man who was found with stab wounds in the city centre in the early hours of yesterday.

Tensions in north Mayo have escalated once again with eight arrests over the weekend and one on Tuesday when a large number of protesters gathered for the summer Rossport Peace Camp. With the Solitaire due to arrive back in Mayo waters in the next month, the Rossport Solidarity Camp has taken up residence in Glengad in a bid to build up the resistance to Shell over the coming weeks and months. Mary Sweeney of the Rossport Solidarity Camp said: “Resistance in Mayo is building again. We’re expecting many waterborne activists from across Europe to arrive over the following weeks. The Solitaire will leave Irish waters once again with no pipeline laid.”

“Law and order is on the verge of breaking down in the county,” according to Swinford councillor Joe Mellett, while Belmullet councillor Gerry Coyle said that “thugs should be put behind bars”. These were just some of the indignant comments made by councillors at Monday afternoon’s county council meeting after a motion was put forward by Fine Gael councillor Michael Burke for the council to call on the Minister for Justice to provide more gardaí in Mayo, to fight the ongoing crime and anti social behaviour.

A public meeting of Galway City Joint Policing Committee will take place on Monday November 30 at 7pm in the Menlo Park Hotel, Terryland.