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A Garda Superintendent from Tuam Garda Station is to play a pivotal role in an investigation into alledged comments made by three gardai during the arrest of Corrib oil protesters.

Putting the clocks back or forward by an hour as required is something we take for granted nowadays. But this has not always been the case.

A 15 camera CCTV set-up is proposed for Westport according to the Garda Superintendent of the town, Mick Murray.

A letter sent by the proprietor of the Supermacs restaurant in Castlebar to the members of the Castlebar Joint Policing Committee (JPC), was described as being “nearly contemptuous” by Garda Superintendent Willie Keaveney at a meeting of the JPC this week. The committee was discussing the issue of takeaway closing times concerning an agreement that had been reached with the rest of the takeaway operators in the town to close at 2.30am. However, Supermacs was refusing to sign up to the agreement.

The reported sighting of a man matching the description of the Athlone attacker in a Dublin train station is one of many possible sightings that have been reported, according to Athlone Gardai.

The “hazardous junction” near the Merlin Park Hospital and retail area is causing motorists to take risks and putting lives at danger and something needs to be done about it before there is “loss of life”.

On the evening that France and Britain declared war on Germany, September 3 1939, the 13,500-ton liner SS Athenia, chartered by the Cunard Line, and bound for Montreal with 1,418 passengers and crew was torpedoed, without warning, 250 miles northwest of Malin Head in the North Atlantic*. The following day the Norwegian vessel, Knute Nelson, was steaming towards Galway with 367 shocked and injured survivors, and asked that the city be prepared to receive them. Other survivors were picked up by British naval vessels and brought elsewhere for treatment, but in total 112 passengers and crew were killed in the attack, 28 of them Americans sailing for home as war was declared in Europe.

Driving the car is a rite of passage for young people. It signals greater independence and the coming of adulthood. For many young people it is a sign of status. Young drivers are known as greater risk takers relative to adults. This, combined with the operation of a several ton vehicle and limited on-the-road experience, is clearly a mix that leads to greater risk. Reducing risk requires multiple interventions.