1996/99
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4 March 1998
Effort to settle appointment crux
The department of Education has taken steps to settle the controversy over the appointment of a new Adult Education Officer by Mayo Vocational Education Committee
The seven member interview board is to be reconvened in the coming weeks to consider the matter.
When the board conducted interviews late last year, the four voting members expressed a preference for the appointment of Ballyhaunis secondary school teacher, Mr Pat Higgins, for the position.
Concerns were subsequently raised by the Mayo Branch of the TUI over the delay in ratifying the appointment. The matter was discussed in committee' at last Thursday's meeting of Mayo Vocational Education Committee
New home for convicted sex offender
A convicted paedophile whose Kiltimagh home was gutted in an arson attack before Christmas won't be going back to the town and will be taking up residence elsewhere next week.
The accommodation for 67 year old Michael Shaughnessy in the Balla area has been made available by a local resident who was "perturbed and saddened" by the December incident.
Shaughnessy was released from Mountjoy Jail in mid-December after serving three years of a five year sentence for indecent assault on females.
Feelings had been running very high in Kiltimagh over the prospect of his return and after the burning relatives of some of the victims were among those seeking signatures for a petition demanding that he never be allowed reside there.
Shaughnessy has been cared for at Swinford District Hospital for the past two and a half months but the alternative accommodation, which he will rent near Balla, is now ready for occupation.
Cinema saga lingers on and on!
The intriguing saga over the battle to build Mayo's first multi-screen cinema complex is set to linger on for another month.
An Bord Pleanala announced it would not be issuing its verdict until next month in the appeals against the development of two new ultra modern cinemas in Castlebar.
The decision in the case of the Cavendish Lane Properties proposal for a six-screen cinema at Knockacroghery will be made on Thursday, April 16th ---five days before the fate of the multiplex facility by Barcastle Industries Limited at Gorteendrunagh is made clear.
Both of the promoters appealed against the other in one of the most fascinating planning issues ever to occur in the county town.
Connaught Telegraph - News & Sport - March 1998
