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A garda who had concerns for the safety of a child after gaining entry to a wild house party was then confronted with the highly intoxicated and agitated mother, the Galway District Court heard this week.

A new report has revealed that Westmeath’s fire brigade had the third slowest mobilisation time of the country’s part-time fire brigades last year.

Westmeath’s chief fire officer David Stuart has hit out at a recent report highlighting the mobilisation times of Westmeath’s fire brigade, saying it “does not compare like with like”.

Haphazard parking in housing estates and on town streets in Carlow, could exacerbate an emergency situation if access for emergency vehicles is blocked, according to concerned local councillors.

A 22-year-old Sligo woman took off with a barman’s car before smashing into the back of a mobile concrete pump lorry at the Promenade in Salthill a crash which resulted in her death and a parking ban on certain heavy goods vehicles.

There are no plans to build a fire station in Kinnegad despite a 260 per cent increase in its population in the last 10 years, Westmeath County Council learned at its monthly meeting in Mullingar this week (February 23).

“It’s a great honour to have the conference here,” said Westmeath’s Chief Fire Officer of the two day Chief Fire Officers’ Association conference in Mullingar this week.

It is essential for Galway city that the city manager Joe MacGrath “insist that the county manager” fill two full-time fire-fighters positions which have become vacant because of retirements.

A lack of funding will see community warden patrols finish before dark on Halloween night, leaving bonfire safety to the Garda, and fire services, according to chairman of the joint policing committee, Councillor Padraig Conneely.

More than 600 homes in Galway are set to receive free smoke alarms in this year’s Community Smoke Alarm Scheme.