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Almost 10,000 people in Mayo are being prescribed anti-depressants and anxiety pills under the General Medical Services Scheme, a new report has shown.

A 21-year-old who stashed drugs in a hay shed on his family farm was before Ballina District Court this week for the possession of cannabis and also for the sale and supply of the drug.

Heroin dealers in the south-east region were targeted yesterday by 70 Gardai involved in a year-long surveillance operation organised to avert drug dealing in the region.

A 38-year-old married father of two, who is employed by Bus Éireann, was disqualified from driving for three years at Ballina District Court after he was detected drink driving in September 2008.

A man who assaulted a stranger who allowed him to share his taxi home, had an 11 month jail sentence adjourned until November in the District Court this week (June 24).

Members of Mayo County Councils Joint Policing Committee this week proposed to contact the Minister of Justice to condemn the “revolving door system of prisons” as prison sentences are not a “deterrent” and gardaí are frustrated that “criminals can act without impunity”.