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A man charged with five counts of assault against four gardaí and with a hit and run was sentenced to a total of four months in jail when he appeared at Galway District Court last week.

The Morton Stadium in Santry witnessed three world records, the one mile, two mile and three mile, in the summer of 1958. Fifty years on and a large international field at the Morton Memorial Meet on Friday night failed to set any records but delighted the spectators with the quality of their performances. The definitive event, the Morton Memorial Mile, saw the first nine finishers achieve sub four minute miles with victory going to Rob Myers, USA in 3 minutes 56.23 secs.

Ireland has been shipping over 200,000 gallons of milk, (approximately 35 bulk milk tanker loads) to England everyday for the past couple of months, because British milk production is 15 per cent below quota this year.

The voice of acclaimed Greek singer Savina Yannatou is often regarded as an instrument in itself and so I wasn’t surprised to hear the enchanting rhythmic tones of her soothing voice when she spoke to me from her home in Athens last week.

The Granary Learning Centre has become one of the city’s most popular language schools but now it is branching out to host exhibitions, readings, and film screenings with its new events series called The Meeting Point.

BABORÓ, THE Galway based international arts festival for children, returns from October 13 to 19 featuring opera singing sheep, a lost sock workshops, haunted houses, hip hop dance, life size bubbles, and an electric fairy.

An employee of Galway-based MarCon Computations International Ltd has received the Mary Breslin Award after successfully developing new software which will help to target new markets in the aquaculture/mariculture industry and the fisheries agencies.

At this stage I presume that, like myself, you are sick to your teeth of hearing people complaining about the recent Budget. First the pensioners, then the teachers, medical professionals, and more recently the farmers have taken to the streets to highlight how unjust the recent changes brought about by the Budget have been to each of their respective spheres. And that’s before we even mention the dreaded word recapitalisation. Thank God for the All-Blacks was all I could think as our attention was diverted to matters less important, but infinitely more entertaining over the past week.

Those who thought that the lifting of Sam Maguire was the signal to finally put away the county colours for another year would be very much mistaken. With the launch of the National Rehab/Powers Whiskey Pub Quiz in association with the Vintners Federation of Ireland, there is still one more chance for Mayo to be crowned All-Ireland champions and you can even be a part of the glory.

A new season begins for An Cearnog Nua, Moycullen basketballers on Saturday when the National League division one gets underway.