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A 49-year-old woman came before Castlebar District Court this week accused of making a hoax bomb warning about a device ‘primed and ready to go off’ at Downing Street around the time of Margaret Thatcher’s death in April 2013.

Gardaí will not say what information if any, was recorded in telephone calls to and from Mullingar Garda Station.

An application for CCTV for Westport has been forwarded to Garda Headquarters. According to Superintendent Aiden Foley the application has been sent and he hopes to be called to present to the Garda CCTV committee at the next quarterly meeting. However, the superintendent could not give the town’s JPC meeting a date when CCTV would be up and running.

Contested GoSafe prosecutions led to Inspector John McDonald, who is responsible for running the fixed charge processing unit in Thurles, being before Ballina District Court this week to outline the role of GoSafe and the procedure which takes place from between time of speeding detection, and a fine being issued, and if necessary the issuing of a summons.

Tour de Force is a group of approximately 50 members of An Garda Síochána based in Dublin, and their friends and family, who take part in an annual sponsored cycle in aid of various local, national, and international charities. This year, the gardaí and their friends will cycle between Dublin and Westport and all the funds raised will go to the Mayo branch of the Cystic Fibrosis Association. In particular, the money raised this year will go towards the development of the special CF Unit at Mayo General Hospital.

An increase in antisocial behaviour and the activities of boy-racers make a Garda HQ for Renmore - promised more than three years ago - a necessity.

A Lithuanian national whose driving licence was deemed a counterfeit by a detective garda from Garda Headquarters — who specialises in handwriting and documents — furnished more documentation at Claremorris District Court this week for further investigation.