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What would have happened to James Joyce had he come to the relative comforts of Coole, instead of opting for hardship and exile and the life of a wandering artist in Europe?

Oughterard Golf Club: Oughterard is celebrating All Ireland success after winning the Irish Mixed Foursomes trophy. The Connacht champions defeated their Munster counterparts, Lisselan, by 3 - 2 at Castlerock Golf Club. In the semi-finals Oughterard scored a 3-2 win over the Ulster champions City of Derry, while Lisselan beat the Leinster champions, Clontarf, by 4-1.

A man who led gardai on a high-speed pursuit during which he dangerously overtook a bus and forced oncoming traffic into a ditch and a garda officer to jump out of the way to safety at a checkpoint has been jailed for 10 months this week.

A 23-year-old man whose aggression after being cut with a blade led to an altercation, was fined €400 and given a stern warning that next time he might not be so lucky.

A man charged with two counts of raping a minor earlier this year has been further remanded in custody with consent to bail.

A 51-year-old woman has been charged with attempting to blackmail a taxi driver in return for not making a complaint to gardai that he took advantage of her.

A Tuam man, with 65 previous convictions, was sentenced to seven months at Galway District Court this week for stealing a woman’s purse after she stumbled to the ground.

The Galway District Court heard this week how a 26-year-old Galway man “broke down” when he saw CCTV footage of himself punching a woman in a city centre restaurant and breaking her nose.

Two brazen young Galway girls who showed absolutely no remorse for viciously assaulting a woman as she walked home from work were both sentenced to five months with the final month suspended, at Galway District Court this week.

A district court judge was left in utter disbelief after hearing the exploits of a 22-year-old woman adept at “extracting money from foolish Irish men”.