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Cllr John Connolly has welcomed the recent works that have been undertaken in Eyre Square.

September is a tough time of year with children going back to school. Parents have spent a small fortune on uniforms and books etc there is very little left for those little treats or breaks from cooking, so for the month of September, children eat free in Capones between 12 noon – 6pm every day.

Gangster, bootlegger, and enemy number one, Al Capone once terrorised Chicago, but in Knocknacarra where his mugshots have moved from the police files to gracing the walls of the ever popular restaurant, Capones, his name has become synonymous with great food and service.

Mayo based farmers are suffering severe hardship as a result of the Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food’s unacceptable delay in processing outstanding REPS payments, according to Dara Calleary TD.

About 18 years ago when I was working in The Tuam Herald, word came to us that there had been an attempt to bomb the World Trade Centre. The plan involved parking a truck below the North Tower, near one of its corner crutches. The intention was to bring down one tower, possibly into the other, and kill thousands of people. The plan did not work, but unfortunately seven people were killed and thousands received varying degrees of injuries. The reason there was a Tuam connection is because there was a local woman who was working on one of the towers. Ann Marie McHugh came from a well-known local family — her parents Padraig and Margaret ran the Town Hall Tavern in the heart of the town — so news of her terror on that occasion was a story of considerable local interest. On the phone from New York (because there was no email or internet in those days), she told me how, as an asthmatic, she was terrified as she had to descend 80 flights of stairs to make it out from the smoke-filled building. It took her hours to make her way down the darkened stairwell and she spoke of her relief reaching the ground and seeing the light through the smoke.

JOHN CONNOLLY, one of Ireland’s leading crime writers, is coming to Portumna on Thursday May 5 at 7.30pm in The Shannon Oaks Hotel.

Capone's diner and takeaway is a family run business situated across the road from the Knocknacarra Shopping Centre at Kingston Hall.

The IFTA nominated Tg4 series Mobs Mheiriceá continues this week with Pat Nee’s journey from Rosmuc, Co Galway, to the top of the Boston mob.

The free pre-school year for all children, introduced in the recent Budget will see some 70,000 children be eligible to benefit from it each year.

A 37-year-old, who crashed into the back of a car — in which a mother and three children were travelling — and who left the scene, was before Ballinrobe District Court on Friday.