Telegraph Digest - 11 June 1997
11 June 1997
Action at last to save P.O.
Remedial work has begun at last to prevent the garden of Dugort Post Office in Achill from being washed over a cliff into the sea.
Postmistress Mrs. Alice McNamara had begun to despair of anything being done to save the building but action was taken after the matter was highlighted by the Connaught Telegraph. "The politicians are claiming credit but I think nothing would have been done but for the publicity", Mrs. McNamara said yesterday (Tuesday).
Top Garda on the move
Two popular Garda Superintendents in Mayo, Liam Collins of Swinford and Malachy Mulligan, Westport are transferring back to Dublin.
Supt Collins, who has been in Swinford for 17 months, is moving to Garda HQ. He will be replaced by Inspector Patrick Forde who is moving on promotion from Galway City.
Supt Malachy Mulligan of Westport, formerly attached to the Garda Drugs Squad, leaves next week for Cabra, Dublin. He has been in Westport for two years. Supt Mulligan will be replaced by Supt Frank Gunter, a native of Loughrea.
On board of National Museum
Ballina native Adrian Munnelly has been appointed to the interim Board of the National Museum. The Museum is being given independent status under its own board of directors.
Mr. Munnelly is a senior consultant with Carr Communications where he specialises in human resources issues. He has detail knowledge of the public sector from his tenure as Director of the Arts Council.
Disability meeting
People with disabilities are invited to attend a meeting in the welcome Inn Hotel, Castlebar on Wednesday next (June 18) at 2 pm
It will give an opportunity fort people to come together in an informal setting to discuss issues effecting people with disabilities.
Well known disability activist Martin Naughton will be in attendance.
If people have difficulty getting to Castlebar on that date they should contact Bernard Joyce on 091-771549/50.
Turf cutting competition
The All-Ireland turf cutting competition will be held in Ballycastle for the second time on June 15. It is being held as part of the Bicentenary celebrations currently underway in the town.
The rules of the competition are simple. The competitors cut a prepared length of scrawed' bog, and the three adjudicators will decide who has left the best return of turf, most cleanly scored bank and time taken to cut the allocated length of bog.
A total of £1,000 in prize money is on offer with the first prize of £500. Male and female competitors are welcome. Details can be obtained from 096-43288.
Quigley gets four more years
The president of the FAI, Castlebar man Pat Quigley has been appointed to the position for an additional four years.
This will bring him up to the end of the 2002 World Cup in Japan.
Hollymount hosts sheep event
The Irish Texel Sheep Society will hold their annual field day on Sunday for the first time in the West of Ireland.
It will be staged on the farm of Liam Coen, Lehinch, Hollymount from 2 to 6 pm.
Liam was the 1996 All-Ireland winner of the Texel Sheep Flock competition. David O'Kane
Tennis memorial
The David O'Kane tennis memorial will tale place at the Castlebar tennis Club on Sunday when a large turnout is expected.
Foxford exhibition
Denise Clarke of Westport will officially open an exhibition of paintings by John Brady at the Foxford Exhibition Centre on Friday evening at 9 pm
CPI bus ceremony
A specially adopted bus, sponsored by William Durkan, Bohola of the Durkan Group, Dublin and London, will be formally handed over to Cerebral Palsy Ireland Mayo Branch at a ceremony at the Square Kiltimagh on Sunday June 21 at 5.30 pm
Fisheries Officer injured in attack
A fisheries officer sustained head and foot injuries when he tried to prevent a vehicle being damaged while on fishery protection duty.
Frank Howley received six stitches for a head wound and has a suspected broken toe after stones were used by the three men involved.
Two other officers sustained minor injuries in the incident which occurred on the River Moy at Ballina on Monday night.
The North Western Regional Fisheries Board intends to institute legal proceedings. The Gardai are also investigating the incident.
