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Mayo 4-14

The levels of lead in the older areas of the city have dropped, city officials said this week, contrary to reports stating that the water contamination has spread throughout the city.

Cllr Ken Glynn is calling on Westmeath County Council to investigate the possibility of providing additional parking near Mullingar fire station to accommodate the increased numbers using the car park near the Clonmore station.

Mayo 1-11

Competitive rowing had been taking place on the Corrib for many years when the Ancient Order of Hibernians decided to form a new club in 1910. They got local contractor Walter Flaherty (who had already built the Corrib Club) to build a wooden clubhouse on the site of the present Galway Rowing Club. It was tarred each year up to 1970 in order to preserve the wood, and so it became known as ‘the Blackening Box’. In that year also there was a dispute in Saint Patrick’s Rowing Club and a number of oarsmen left and joined the new club.

A teenager charged with setting fire to a Garda patrol car was refused bail this week because he had continually ignored warnings given to him by the court.

A Kilkenny-born pensioner died following an accident when a hospital car park barrier came down on her head an inquest heard yesterday.

The construction of the new school building for Athlone Community College could provide much needed employment in the Athlone area, according to Deputy Mary O’Rourke.

It's been over twenty years since the world's worst nuclear accident occurred in Chernobyl in northern Ukraine.

A fire ripped through a family home in Ballyvarry on bank holiday Monday morning leaving the house completely destroyed. No one was in the house when the blaze broke out at 8.15am.