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A Tuam man who gardaí found buying heroin in a Dublin flat to sell to his friends in Galway has received a suspended jail sentence.

GALWAY BAND OF THE YEAR: So Cow

A Tuam man who was in a Dublin flat when gardaí raided it and caught another man bagging up heroin for street dealing has been remanded on bail pending sentence next February.

Hundreds of friends of Martin Naughton (23) who lost his life in a tragic road crash on the N17 at Knockdoe this time last year will climb Croagh Patrick next month in his memory and to raise funds for the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dun Laoghaire.

Roscommon native Sam O’Neill has been elected Students’ Union president of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology for a second term, after an overwhelming majority of 90 per cent voted to re-instate him into the position.

When World War I finished and the National Shell Factory on Earl’s Island closed down, the buildings were taken over by the 6th Dragoon Guards who had a reputation for wanton brutality. This was unusual in that most well armed British army units, with few having a role in the intelligence conflict, were rarely attacked during the War of Independence in the west of Ireland. While individual RIC men became defined as ‘good’ or ‘bad’, it was army regiments, rather than individual soldiers, that became so defined.

FOR 11 years Strange Brew has championed “indie beats, alternative rock and good vibrations” and this month it celebrates it’s 555th night.

A new commercial rates system which incentivises new businesses and has an ‘inability to pay’ clause is essential for towns across Galway East like Tuam, Loughrea, and Ballinasloe.

THREE OF the most exciting Irish indie bands - one from Dublin, one from Tuam, the other from Donegal - play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh on Thursday March 7.

A 20-year-old man charged in connection with a burglary at a city centre apartment has been sent forward for trial.