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A man who parked on double yellow lines was convicted and fined €100 at Castlebar District Court on Wednesday.

Judge Seamus Hughes has sent out a strong warning to people who arrive in his new district to steal.

Upset and outraged residents in the Cluain Árd estate in Ballybrit have demanded a public apology from a Galway West TD for a statement which they believe has branded them all as “neighbours from hell”.

A Ballyhaunis man who was in court in June, and given a chance to pay compensation to two injured parties for criminal damage he caused to their property, was sentenced to three months in prison this week in Claremorris District Court after failing to pay any monies.

Cregmore Golf Club: Cregmore celebrated success at the weekend, becoming Cecil Ewing Connacht champions. The team was: Conor Killeen and Philip Gallagher; Conor O'Shea and Mike Kearns, Pat Gavin and David Burke,J ohn McGrath and Brendan Cleary,Eoin Corcoran and Karl Hughes, Mike Greally and Fiachra Murphy, Ciaran O'Donnell and Sean Cloonan, and team captain Mossie Sheehan.

There is often more drama in the board room of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, than what is presented on its stage. Following a famous conversation in Doorus House, Kinvara, one rainy afternoon in 1897, Lady Augusta Gregory of Coole Park, Edward Martyn of Ardrahan, and the young poet WB Yeats agreed to set up the Irish Literary Theatre. Theatre at the time was mainly influenced by the popular British music hall variety; and melodrama. It was agreed that day in Co Galway that the new Irish theatre would ‘embody and perpetuate Irish feeling, genius, and modes of thought’.

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.

Local seafood company Duane’s Seafoods Ltd has opened a new 6,000sq ft retail and wholesale premises in Ballybane.