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An apology has been issued by the HSE to a six-year-old Craughwell girl with cerebral palsy over failings in her care after her birth at University College Hospital, Galway.

Galway’s Frank Byrnes Autobody Repairs, based in Oranmore, features in the top three autobody shops nationally, following the announcement in Dublin this week, of the finalists in the (SIMI) The Society of Irish Motor Industry Awards 2017 which are sponsored by Bank of Ireland Finance. Having a great track record, the Oranmore business is a previous winner of this competition in 2012 and 2014, and features annually in the top three shortlist. Last year, Byrnes was awarded the ‘SIMI Outstanding Achievement’ for his involvement in organising ‘Climb4Cancer’ with industry colleagues and raised €63,000 for The Irish Cancer Society. Frank Byrnes Autobody Repairs was established in 2003 and provides specialist accident and crash repairs on all types of vehicles using innovative techniques including the latest technologies to get the job completed. All work comes with a lifetime guarantee.

A former solicitor who stole €260,000 from her clients over a three year period has been jailed for a year. Jacqueline Durcan (47), a mother of five originally from Co Mayo, carried out the thefts after a series of “catastrophic” investments during the property boom. Most of the money stolen was put back into the family practice, including paying for professional indemnity insurance, while €51,000 was used towards stamp duty for the purchase of her own home, the court heard.

We are one month out from Christmas, to the day, and I would like to mark it by wishing you and yours a happy Black Friday. The retailers’ fabricated start to the Christmas shopping season has already caught on in little old Ireland. The run up to Christmas no longer begins on the Church’s specified day, but instead is determined by frenzied shoppers, wound up by delighted retailers. Of course, the upside is that shoppers bag bargains, businesses take on extra employees, and extra income is regenerated as a result of the additional footfall.

The case of a former solicitor who stole €260,000 from her clients is to be re-heard after the sentencing judge realised that a member of her wider family knew a relative of the accused.

Karen Elliffe of Ballinagore Macra in Westmeath was crowned the 2016 W.R Shaw Queen of the Land at the Bridge House Hotel in Tullamore recently.

A former solicitor who was €6.5 million in debt stole €260,000 from her clients after she made a series of “catastrophic” investments during the property boom, a court has heard. Jacqueline Durcan (47) previously from Co Mayo but with an address in Rue Laubespin, Brussels, Belgium, pleaded guilty to one count of stealing €260,000 between February 21 2008 and January 27 2011.

Week II

Four Unislim members from Mayo celebrated achieving their amazing weight loss at this year's 44th Unislimmer of the Year Awards in Dublin on Wednesday last week. They competed against 10 other finalists (eight female and two male) hailing from across Ireland for the coveted title of Unislimmer of the Year 2016.