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CORRUNDULLA TEENAGER GETS JAIL FOR DANGEROUS DRIVING
Date Published: 09-Apr-2008
A 19 year-old Corrundulla man has been jailed for a year for dangerous driving and put off the road for eight years at Galway Circuit Criminal Court.
Alan Harte of Cluide, Corrundulla, had previously pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing serious bodily harm to a front female passenger of his car on the 18th of November 2006.
Garda Daragh Brown told Galway Circuit Criminal Court that he was called to the scene of a crash on a narrow road going towards Tuam at 4am on the 18th of November 2006.
He concluded the driver of the Opel Vectra, the then-18-year-old Alan Harte, was intoxicated and arrested him.
The female front passenger of the car sustained a dislocated left elbow, two fractured vertebrae, as well as serious injuries to her knee and wrist.
Con Crowley BL, defending, told Judge Raymond Groarke that the Probation services would like to see Alan Harte address his alcohol problem, preferably by in-house treatment at Merlin Park.
Passing sentence Judge Groarke said Harte’s unfortunate front seat passenger sustained injuries that are likely in the future to affect her.
Judge Groarke sentenced him to one year in prison and disqualified him from holding a driving licence for 8 years.
Date Published: 07-May-2013
Tuam has secured it’s second import of hay from the UK this afternoon in a bid to address the ongoing fodder crisis in the west.
A load of between 40 and 50 bales arrived at the Connacht Gold store in Airglooney for distribution throughout the county.
It follows a similar load last Thursday to the Tuam outlet.
The co-op also took a load of imported hay to the mart in Maam Cross over the weekend, however most of the bales had already been pre-assigned to farmers.
Further loads of hay are expected to arrive across the west and north west tonight and tomorrow morning.
Date Published: 09-May-2013
281 offers of social housing were made by the city and county councils last year.
Figures provided by the local authorities show that 46 of these were refused.
Galway city council made 193 such offers in 2012 with 41 of these refused.
The majority didn’t like the area they were offered or disliked the property itself.
Galway county council made 88 offers of social housing last year with 83 of these accepted.
Reasons given for refusing five properties focused on the location or that the property itself did not meet their needs.
Date Published: 13-May-2013
Galway Senator Trevor O’ Clochartaigh has called on the government to provide more support for victims of domestic violence.
Figures provided to the Sinn Fein Senator show that domestic violence support group COPE accompanied over 80 women to court in Galway last year, but a further 214 women were unable to avail of such assistance.
Senator O Clochartaigh told Galway Bay fm news that more needs to be done to support victims of domestic violence.
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