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The next meeting is on Wednesday 29 October at 8pm sharp in the Castlecourt Hotel and being mid-October it’s contest time again at Toastmasters Westport.

Gerry Cahill was born in Caherlistrane and started playing music from the age of eight..... first the melodeon, then the double row accordion, and later the piano accordion. He was a great admirer of musicians like Will Starr and Jimmy Shand. He soon developed a distinctive style of his own and he was very much in demand at house dances and roadside dances, which were very common at the time.

A 39-year-old man who led gardaí on a dangerous car chase through Partry, Kilmaine and Shrule ramming a garda jeep in the process, was fined a total of €4,000 at Ballinrobe district court this week, disqualified from driving for 12 years and sentenced to six months in prison to run consecutively with a six month sentence which he is currently serving.

“Seven doesn’t go into six” is Independent Councillor Harry Walsh’s clear observation on next year’s local elections. With the redrawing of the boundaries for next year’s local elections, the Ballinrobe area came out of it looking like they could be the big looser in the terms of representation. With the purging of the Ballinrobe electoral area from the map and it being subsumed into the newly redrawn Claremorris area, it brings an end to ten years as single electoral entity. “We do feel hard done by and the area as a whole should feel hard done by because we have lost a lot of our natural hinterland in this redrawing and we are now being consumed into a very large geographical area in the county. My main concern is of course for the Ballinrobe area as a whole, but my home area of around Shrule and Kilmaine went for seven or eight years without a councillor before and it’s important that an area like that has representation.”

GAA presentations

Safe Driving School of Motoring, which is headed up by Jacqui Moran, is based in Ballinrobe and provides a thorough and competent way to learn to drive.

A Ballinrobe man was convicted and fined €750 in his absence in Ballyhaunis District Court this week for allowing a child to be carried unrestrained in the front of his van.

The owner of a heavy goods vehicles was fined more than €5,000 at Galway District Court this week for failing to have the proper carriers licence in place and failing to pay road tax.

Sunday July 19 the west’s ultimate cycling challenge, Polka Dot Challenge, takes place from the Western Lakes Cycling Centre, Kilmaine Road, Ballinrobe. Registration will begin at 7.30am.

The owner of heavy goods vehicles was fined more than €5,000 at Galway District Court this week for failing to have the proper carriers licence in place and failing to pay road tax.