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Westmeath County Council has unveiled a new road scheme that will give residents access to €5m in funds for local road improvements, but councillors are less than enthusiastic about it.

A lorry driver for a Ballina company was convicted and fined at Ballina District Court on Tuesday as he failed to take adequate rest breaks.

A lorry driver has been praised by the emergency services in Athlone for averting a potential disaster when he steered a burning lorryload of oil and alcohol off the M6 onto a minor road in the early hours of Friday morning.

A man who paid €30,000 compensation to a man whose nose he bit, has been given a two year suspended sentence at Mullingar Circuit Court for assault causing harm.

A 38-year-old self employed lorry driver, who failed to take required breaks while driving, was before Castlebar District Court this week.

A Knockmore man who claimed unemployment assistance while he worked as a lorry driver was before Ballina District Court this week.

A Gort man who dangerously swerved in front of a 40 feet articulated lorry at a busy traffic junction before flicking his middle finger at the driver was fined €600 and disqualified from driving for two years at Galway District Court this week.

A lorry driver who spent six and a half hours in the pub with his wife after watching the Munster-Leinster Heineken Cup semi-final last year, and was then arrested after he chose to drive less than a kilometre to his house because it was raining, had his two year and one day District Court driving ban upheld in the Circuit Court in Athlone this week (December 8).

A man who admitted to knowingly driving his van without insurance avoided a disqualification in the District Court this week (October 27) after the judge accepted he needed it for work.

A lorry driver was seriously injured in an accident that closed one lane of the N4 dual carriageway for six hours outside Mullingar last Monday August 16.