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A MAN who faces charges of being in possession of two sawn-off shotguns and a cocaine press had his case sent forward to the Circuit Criminal Court in Galway, when he came before Judge James Faughnan at Ballinasloe District Court.

On this day, February 13, 1922, the IRA took over Renmore Barracks from the British. When the Anglo-Irish Treaty was ratified on January 7, 1922, it was only a matter of time before the British Army would leave the Barracks. There was some suggestion initially that the Regional Hospital might transfer to the barracks. On February 2, the last Black and Tans had left Galway by train. The British did not want to surrender the Barracks to the Volunteers, so an arrangement was made where they would leave at a certain time, and the formal handover would take place a few hours later.