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Commuter traffic between the routes of Castlebar/Westport and Balla/Claremorris was seriously compromised this week when two serious vehicular accidents on different days led to rush-hour road closures and long delays for motorists.

The Castlebar Joint Policing Committee is to write to the operators of takeaway restaurants in the town to meet with them in relation to the number of incidents that occur outside them on weekend nights. Fine Gael councillor Noreen Heston raised the issue, asking Superintendent Willie Keaveney how much of his resources were taken up on weekend nights policing these areas. Supt Keaveney told the meeting that from 1am to 4am from Friday to Sunday night, he had to have almost all his officers in close vicinity to the areas they operate in, because when the night clubs start emptying out and people start to congregate in these areas the vast majority of assaults and incidents of anti social behaviour start occurring.

Superintendent Willie Keaveney gave an undertaking to deal with the issue of double parked taxis in Castlebar at a meeting of the joint policing committee for the town.

Superintendent Willie Keaveney gave an undertaking to deal with the issue of double parked taxis in Castlebar at a meeting of the joint policing committee for the town.

“If there are buses coming from Sligo and Galway to Castlebar for a teenage disco, there is only one thing on the people’s mind and that’s to abuse alcohol.” That was the opinion of Superintendent Willie Keaveney who was speaking at the Castlebar joint policing committee in relation to teenage discos in the town.

There were eight knife crimes in Mayo over the months of July and August and one serious crime where an axe was brandished. Two people died, a garda was seriously injured in the line of duty, others narrowly defied death, and many families have been severely traumatised as a result of the thuggery. The incidents have left gardaí in Mayo ‘dumbfounded’. Superintendent Willie Keavney said “such a serious litany of incidents” was unprecedented, and was frightening not only for the gardaí but for the general public. He said the practice of young people going out at night with knives had to be looked at. “We are dumbfounded as to what to do,” Supt Keaveney told Monday’s meeting of the joint policing committee. “We don’t want to turn every fellow upside down looking for knives,” he added.