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[Source: Westmeath Examiner]

WEXFORD

Two men who denied charges of forging the will of an elderly man in 1998 have been found guilty of the offense by a jury at Wexford Circuit Criminal Court.

William O’Leary (49) from Arthurstown and businessman Noel Hayes (59) from Ramsgrange, had denied forging the will of bachelor farmer Matthew Hayes.

Mr. Hayes died in hospital aged 82 on December 25, 1998.
[Source: Wexford Echo]

WICKLOW

Gardaí (police) were investigating an incident in which three members of a family were taken from their home in County Wicklow and attacked last Wednesday.

A number of men entered a house at Fr. Redmond Park in Arklow at about 10 p.m. and took: two men – aged in their 50s and 20s – a woman in her 40s, and a car from the scene.

They were found a number of hours later at Ballymoney beach in Gorey, Co. Wexford.

The victims had been physically assaulted, and the car had been set on fire.
[Source: Kildare Nationalist]
 

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