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Councillors gave a cautious welcome to what one of them termed a “watered down” plan for the regeneration of Battery Heights, at Monday’s meeting of Athlone Town Council.

“The water will stop flowing down the Shannon before you stop drinking,” said the judge to an alcoholic, in court for the 147th time.

It was a historic week for St Anthony’s special school in Castlebar which this week saw its biggest ever graduating class leave the school. Ten students, three of whom have been in the school for 12 years and the others also there for long periods of time, were rewarded with a special graduation Mass and presentation. Fiona Byrne, principal of St Anthony’s, was delighted with the achievement of her graduating class. “It is the biggest class we have ever had leave the school,” she said. “Most of them have been with us since we were very young. It was very emotional, because of the emotional ties and attachments they build up between the students and the teachers through the years who work together for years.”

“Customers are the life-blood of business”, according to Brian Burke, Principal of Relevant Marketing. “Our mantra is that we know how to find them and we’ll help you to mind them.”

A company, whose new premises were officially opened by the Taoiseach less than a year ago has been accused by a judge of operating illegally.

Judge Neilan launched a stinging attack on the HSE when he read how a man who had been in their care for eight years was functionally illiterate.