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A fatal accident at Custume Place in Athlone on March 16, 2011 was recalled at Athlone District Court on Wednesday (February 8), in which 85-year-old Frank Lennon died instantly after he was struck by a tractor.

In 1883, a sub-committee of the town commissioners reported on the sanitary conditions of the houses in this area. Some were occupied in tenements, others were held by single families. “In none of these houses is there any provision as to water closets, privies or drains which in itself is deplorable; but your committee feel it would be but ill discharging their duty if they stopped short at such an exposition and remain silent as to the absence of every feature which would recommend them as habitations for human beings. The poor can only hope for impoverished dwellings, but when a gentleman enters into commercial relations with them, and on a well intended profitable scale to himself .... he should not be exempted from the obligation of providing them with accommodation somewhat better than Indian wigwams.”

A man who was moving his car a matter of metres to a more secure location and who already called a taxi was still put from the road for a year after he just failed a breath test.

Another man who failed an intoxiliser test got to walk from the court this week (November 24) with his licence intact after the arresting garda got the car registration wrong, the townland wrong, and failed to sign the receipts issued by the intoxilising machine.