News from around the 32 counties of Ireland

(Source: Irish Times)

Leitrim

The latest figures from the Australian Department of Immigration have revealed a massive increase in the number of Irish people emigrating to Australia with just over three thousand Irish citizens were granted permanent residency in the financial year ending June 2010, a 22 percent rise on the previous years

(Source: Leitrim Observer)

Limerick

Gardai have caught red-handed the man behind the forged €50 notes that have been circulating in a county village for the past few weeks. The matter was reported to gardai and a search was conducted at the end of last week in Doon. It is understood a note was found in the man's wallet. A Garda spokesperson confirmed a man was found in possession of one of the notes. "We did a search and found a dud note with the same serial number as the rest of them. A man was interviewed and he made admissions in relation to the other notes," said the spokesperson.

(Source: Limerick Leader)

Longford

A County Longford senior footballer had to have part of his scalp glued back together after he was viciously assaulted outside a Sligo nightclub, it has emerged. Newtowncashel student, Peter Foy suffered a broken and dislocated jaw, a fractured eye socket and extensive damage to his teeth during the frenzied attack along Sligo town's Market Street on November 7.

(Source: Longford Leader)

Louth

Around 100 protestors lined both entrances to the Louth County Hospital last Monday to protest at Mary Harney's visit. While the Minister for Health was already inside when the bulk of the group arrived, they made their feelings known about the number of cutback in services at the hospital under her watch as both she and locally-based Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern left the grounds following the official opening of the new North Eastern Regional Colposcopy unit.

(Source: Dundalk Democrat)

Mayo

A well-known 48-year-old Swinford man with a physical disability died after slipping on a sheet of ice outside his isolated home. John McCann of Barnacoogue, Swinford was found outside his home lying on a sheet of ice after having to walk almost 5k in the snow because he couldn’t get a lift home in the bad weather conditions. Gardaí in Swinford confirmed that the man had a head injury and that he may have been exposed to the cold for 24 hours.

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