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These include the introduction of one-hour maximum parking in the center of town, two-hour maximum paid parking in town center residential areas, and 50 cent per half-hour paid parking in all-day car parks.
[Source: Offaly Express]

ROSCOMMON

A five-year-old girl died after a man set fire to a house because he was in a rage over finding his girlfriend lying on a bed with another man a few weeks earlier, Roscommon Circuit Court heard last Tuesday.

Mari Keane-Connolly from 49 Termon Road, Boyle, Co. Roscommon, died after her home “became an inferno” in the early hours of October 3rd, last year.

Teresa Keane, in an emotional victim impact statement, said her daughter “had been killed for nothing” and no apology would bring her back. Abuse was shouted at John Lynch, with an address at 39 Church View in Boyle, when he was led into court.
[Source: Irish Times]

SLIGO

At the Yeats statue outside a bank in Sligo, Paul Murray was blowing up balloons and trying to explain to a tourist what Yeats Day was all about, with a passing reference to Bloomsday. “In Sligo we have a writer who people actually read,” he explained.

The first-ever Yeats Day, billed as a dawn to dusk celebration to mark W.B. Yeats’s birthday, had started with a boat trip across Lough Gill to the lake isle of Innisfree and a full Irish breakfast on the menu for passengers (not a nutty gizzard or a urine-scented mutton kidney in sight).

Senator Susan O’Keeffe, the driving force behind the event, said the idea was to give everyone an opportunity to enjoy Yeats, “even the people who know only one Yeats poem”.
[Source: Irish Times]

TIPPERARY

Two intrepid Nenagh women are travelling to Thailand this summer to carry out volunteer work at Cultural Canvas Thailand. Rosemary Kennedy from Foilnamuck, Dolla, and Susan O’Connor, Tyone, are travelling together to Chiang Mai, Thailand, with EIL Intercultural Learning Ireland to take part in the project.

Both are past pupils of St Mary’s Secondary School, Nenagh. Rosemary, daughter of Mary Hayes, Ballinahich, is a nurse working in The Galway Clinic, and Susan, daughter of Nora Chadwick from Borrisoleigh, and St Mary’s deputy principal, Luke O’Connor, is a primary school teacher in Scoil Mhuire, Clondalkin, Dublin.
[Source: Tipperary Star]

TYRONE

The Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment (the Department) has accepted disqualification undertakings from three directors of a Tyrone plant machinery hire company.

John Martin Haughey (50) and Padraig Haughey (24), both of Drumeen Road, Beragh, Omagh, accepted disqualification undertakings for seven years and five years respectively and Francis Patrick Horisk (32) of Shantavny Road, Ballygawley, accepted disqualification undertakings for six years in respect of their conduct as directors of PFG Plant Hire Limited ("the Company").
[Source: Tyrone Courier]

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