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The issue of late night opening of takeaways in Ballina was raised at the Ballina joint policing committee this week. The JPC resolved to write to all the businesses in the town to see if an earlier common closure time could be agreed on. The issue was raised by Fine Gael councillor Barry McLoughlin. He told the meeting that there was one rule for one and one for another, as most takeaways had trading curfews included in their planning permission.

Inspector Joe Doherty, responding to a question from Fine Gael councillor Michelle Mulherin about drug detection in the town, outlined the work done by the drugs squads in Mayo. He informed the Ballina joint policing committee that the number of seizures of drugs in the Ballina area has risen dramatically in the past 10 years. “In the Ballina district in 1999 there were eight seizures of drugs,” he said. “In 2009 there were 48, which included three for cocaine, four for ecstasy for sale and supply, two for possession of ecstasy, 22 for possession of cannabis resins, and three for sale and supply of cannabis resin. There were also 10 seizures for personal use of cannabis grass and one for sale and supply of cannabis grass.”

Inspector Joe Doherty called for the public to be vigilant to help stop the number of burglaries in Ballina at the town’s joint policing committee meeting this week.

Two brothers from Dublin were before Castlebar District Court this week following disturbances outside a night venue in the town, where one of the men kicked out a Garda patrol car’s window and the other ripped off his shirt and was aggressive to gardaí.

Three men who were involved in a verbal altercation while they were all intoxicated were before Belmullet District Court this week after gardaí arrested them for being threatening and abusive.

The Galway and District League got their Oscar Traynor Trophy campaign off to a winning start on Saturday night at Terryland Park when they gained revenge on the Inishowen League for last year’s defeat at the same stage of the competition.

A 29-year-old man who, when drunk, drove his car on the wrong side of the road around a bend and caused a garda car to swerve to avoid a collision was before Belmullet District Court this week.

A 26-year-old security officer at the Shell gas terminal was found in possession of €75 worth of cannabis following a search on his home where he lives with his widowed mother.

A brawl in the doorway of a house in Ballina involving five people ended up with two men and a woman being convicted for assault in Ballina District Court this week. One of those involved, Shane Downes, Behmore, Ballina, pleaded guilty to the charges in court, while Stephen Duffy, Corimbla South, Ballina, and Clara McGoldrick, 17 Church Manor, Ballina, were both found guilty of an assault. The brawl occurred at 5 The Brook, Ballina, on August 9 2008, when Duffy, Downes, and another man Keith Clarke called to the house of McGoldrick and her boyfriend Alan Delve looking for another girl who was living there.

A Ballina man who refused to give a blood sample after he was arrested on suspicion of drink driving and became abusive to the gardaí pleaded guilty to failing to give a blood sample and public order charges in Ballina District Court this week.