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Two men told gardai they had made marriage proposals to a woman accused of operating a brothel in a city centre apartment, the Galway District Court heard this week before bail was refused.

A Ballyheane man who was involved in an accident between a van and a car was disqualified from driving for two years in his absence. Judge Mary Devins heard the case in the absence of the defendant, Liam Murray, Cornaveagh, Ballyheane, Castlebar.

In a town I know quite well, these are the numbers that are resonating this week. Not because some local octogenarian who spends €10 a week on her lucky dip has won some obscene amount of money. No, the number resonates the opposite of joy. These are the numbers that represent the new reality in small towns like the one I am referring to.

Kilkenny City Hall was a divided house on Monday night, as four local councillors walked out of a borough council meeting to protest against a split between the executive and some of the elected members.

Tonight the lights will go out for the very last time on Moate’s wonderful “House of Dreams”.

Eircom and ESB crews have been working tirelessly in order to restore any services which have been affected due to the adverse weather experienced over the past few days.

There must be something in the air that has prompted the recent spate of tea rooms/cafes. Maybe it is a hankering after a slower pace of life and taking the time to relax rather than grabbing a paper cup of your favourite beverage and drinking it on the go. Maybe it is simpler? During my visits to eating establishments over the past year or three, it is impossible not to notice the fact that the female population dominates. With that in mind, any clever restaurant proprietor should be catering to this sector and that is why in my humble opinion we are seeing the growth of places like the Corrib House Café I visited a couple of weeks ago, and now this new one in Athenry.

After much speculation, Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, confirmed that the standard rate of Irish VAT is to increase from 21 per cent to 23 per cent with effect from midnight 31 December 2011. This VAT rate change is earlier than set out by the Government under the National Recovery Plan where it stated that the standard rate of VAT would only increase to 23 per cent in 2014.

Gardaí have issued a warning aimed particularly at elderly people, about the scourge of doorstep scammers.

A Newcastle man who tried to “hoodwink” and intimidate a vulnerable 81-year-old woman by demanding payment of €700 for the cutting down of trees received an eight-month suspended sentence at Galway District Court this week.