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Local Fianna Fáil councillor, Aengus O’Rourke, has this week expressed his dismay at the leniency in custodial sentences handed down to recidivist offenders by the courts of law.

A new scholarship aimed at helping former prisoners and those with a criminal past access higher education has launched at the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), Athlone Campus.

A murderer and rapist who was arrested in Galway in 1976 is believed to be bringing a legal challenge to secure temporary release after spending more than 45 years in jail.

A Galway business has secured a multi-million contract to supply meat to NHS facilities in Northern Ireland.