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A man charged with the murder of his mother appeared before Judge Adrian Harris at Galway District Court on Monday, November 2, to be presented with a book of evidence and have his case sent forward to the present sitting of the Circuit Criminal Court for trial.

A man charged with the murder of his mother appeared before Judge Adrian Harris at Galway District Court on Monday, November 2, to be presented with a book of evidence and have his case sent forward to the present sitting of the Circuit Criminal Court for trial.

The murderous and vengeful events that followed 'Bloody Sunday' 1920 impacted on the town of Clifden in an unexpected way. There was shooting and murder on its streets; and, following a rampage by the Black and Tans, practically half the town was burnt down.

A fundraising campaign has been launched to help a Crossmolina man get treatment for a rare form of cancer.

A Mayo man serving a life sentence for murdering his mother has been given a two and a half year sentence for throwing boiling water at a prison officer. The court heard Celyn Eadon (24) has sustained irreversible organic brain damage due to drug abuse in his teens. He was convicted last year of stabbing his mother to death in 2011 while in a drug induced psychosis. The attack on the prison officer, which was captured on CCTV, was one of a series of violent incidents which occurred around the time Eadon was moved from the Central Mental Hospital (CMH) to Mountjoy following his murder conviction.