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Two young Mayo designers have been recognised by the Design and Crafts Council of Ireland.

A local fuel supplier has warned that increasing carbon taxes is going to lead to a lucrative black market trade in coal.

Mayo County Council brought waste charges against a couple from Ballinrobe at this week’s sitting of Castlebar District Court; the extremity of the waste was described as “utterly shocking” by Judge Mary Devins.

•Athenry Golf Club: Captain’s Prize, Norman Farrell (6) 97; Michael Crimmins Jnr (13) 99.5; Gross Padraig McInerney (5) 113; Brendan Byrnes (16) 102; Mattie Duane (19) 102.5; Sean Flannery (16) 103. Sunday, Declan Costello (17) 41; Tom Sweeney (18) 41; Gross Blaine Niland (5) 30; Tom Hanley (21) 37; Gerry Doherty (16) 37; Joe Broder (13) 37. Ladies’ 18 hole stableford, Josephine Noone (11) 37; Laura Moran (33) 37; Gross Marie Carr (7) 29; Maureen Lawless (24) 36; Margaret Seery (31) 35; Valerie Greaney (33) 35. •Bearna Golf Club, voted Connacht’s most improved course, is now offering a unique half year membership from July 1 to December 31. For more information contact 091 592677 or email [email protected]

A furniture design student studying at GMIT Letterfrack has won the overall prize in the 2011 House and Home/National Crafts Council of Ireland Student Design Awards.

Portumna Golf Club has won the All-Ireland Junior Cup for the first time in the club’s history. Having They won Connacht in August at Castlebar GC, they returned to the same venue for the All-Ireland finals where they overcame Ulster champions Banbridge to advance to the final against Naas. Father and son John and Sean Cleary were the heroes on the first day, both coming from a deficit position to win their respective matches. And Pat Quinlan was the toast of the club the following day after the Clearys won their respective matches. Quinlan made sure of the trophy when he hit a tremendous four iron to 10ft at the difficult par three 16th to see off David Prendergast of Naas in the fifth and final match. The team was captained by Matt Donoghue.

Mayo did not have any involvement in the two All-Ireland club finals which were decided at the weekend, but the record will show that Ballaghaderreen were the only Connacht club winners in 40x20 this year. St Coman’s were beaten by an impressive Liscarrol side at Crinkle on Saturday, while Salthill’s brave bid for junior club honours came to naught as they narrowly lost out to Coolboy on Sunday at Dolla, Silvermines. Salthill did feature well-known former Ballinrobe handballer Tom Sweeney in their line up, but the Galway side’s cause was as good as lost by the time Sweeney got to see any action. Coolboy’s Jerome Willoughby did most of the damage as he defeated Kevin Craddock of Salthill 21-10, 21-11, in the opening singles. John Ward and Bernie McDonnagh were unable to close the gap for Salthill in the doubles against impressive young Coolboy duo Keith Kavanagh and Gary Donohoe, losing out 42 aces to 31 overall. This meant that Salthill were 30 odd aces adrift, and while Sweeney’s determined effort resulted in a 21-7 victory it was never going to be enough. Coolboy’s John Rodgers finished off the job in the second to record a 10 ace victory overall. Credit to Coolboy whose senior team gave Ballaghaderreen a run for their money last week, they at least did not finish the season empty-handed.