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The 2026 National Famine Commemoration will take place in Portumna next May.

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Portumna to host 2026 National Famine Commemoration ↗

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“This is his first time in a court and no doubt it will be his last,” is how a defence solicitor summed up his client who appeared before Judge John King at Galway District Court on a charge of possessing cocaine.

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Last chance for first-time cocaine offender ↗

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A young man who walked out of Dunne’s Stores, Briarhill without paying for food from the deli counter was ordered to stay away from the store when he was found guilty of the theft.

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Deli thief ordered to stay away from Dunne’s Stores ↗

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A solicitor told a Court that his chronic alcoholic client, who had 52 previous convictions for public order offences, usually for being drunk in public, was a “nuisance but not a menace”.

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Chronic alcoholic ‘a nuisance but not a menace’ ↗

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Government ministers have allocated an unprecedented €3 billion toward transport infrastructure for Galway.

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Three billion euro bonanza ↗

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A gambler who allegedly placed a series of bets on soccer matches using counterfeit sterling notes is to have his case heard early in the New Year at Galway District Court.

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Gambler to face trial for allegedly using dud sterling to place bets ↗

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A German mother of six had a one-month prison sentence imposed on her for urinating and spitting in a Garda van after her arrest for public drunkenness when her case came before Judge Fiona Lydon at Galway District Court. In addition she received a further two months for causing a disturbance at UHG the following day.

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Prison for German woman who urinated in Garda van ↗

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A man who is alleged to have physically assaulted a young woman and pestered her while they were socialising outdoors in Galway last summer will come before the local court again on Monday next.

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Unwanted advances led to physical assault, it is alleged ↗

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