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Kilkenny County Council are banking on surveillance cameras at local bottle banks to play a major role in ending problems with illegal dumping in the county.

A 23-year-old Mullingar woman has received an 11 month sentence after being convicted of 17 thefts.

An uninsured man whose “inability to drive a car properly” on his way to a football match led to the death of a woman in a wheelchair on Mothers’ Day last year was given a three month jail sentence in the District Court last Tuesday (October 14).

“If I have to travel three hours home in the evening I don’t mind as long as I get home,” explains Castlebar Mayor Kevin Guthrie, who is pulled over on the road somewhere between Clara, Co Offaly and Castlebar on a Tuesday evening as he speaks to the Mayo Advertiser. Midway through his term as the first citizen of Castlebar the Fine Gael town councillor is enjoying holding the chain of office for the first time, even if it does mean when he finally makes that three-hour trip after work he might not see his home for too long before he’s out the door again on official duty.

A woman whose case was adjourned from Mullingar to be heard in Tullamore has had it returned back to Mullingar.

May 22 will see the FBD Insurance Rás finish its sixth stage on the streets of Castlebar. A team from Castlebar Cycling Club will be among the pack chasing the yellow jersey for the first time. The five strong team from the club will be following in the footsteps of the like of Seamus Neary, who raced in the Rás over 40 years ago, and Kevin Dunleavy and Billy Burke who competed in the 1980s.

An unemployed hairdresser had her driving privileges trimmed for two years and her bank account shaved of €400 this week (April 24) after being found guilty of drink driving.

A man arrested after a high speed chase up the M6 motorway on Wednesday (September 16) after an alleged armed robbery of a sub-post office in Irishtown, Athlone was remanded in custody yesterday (September 17) after Gardai opposed bail.

The man who allegedly stole €50,000 with a toy gun from a cash in transit employee making a delivery to an Athlone sub-post office last week was remanded in custody for another four weeks after he was unable to stump up €12,000 for bail.