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Mediator to work on Traveller feud
The taxpayer is to be billed for the services of a mediator who is to be appointed by the Department of Justice in hopes of resolving an ongoing feud between two Galway city Traveller families, writes Ann Healy.
Insp Pat McHugh told a special sitting of Galway District Court yesterday that the continuing feud between members of the McDonagh and Barrett families might be resolved if a mediation programme, to be funded by the Department of Justice, was put in place.
Judge Leo Malone adjourned the case to July 31st.
Two in court over man's death
Two men charged in connection with the death of Keith Ryan, Farran Villas, Limerick, whose body was found underneath the Shannon Bridge at Fernbank last Thursday, appeared in Limerick District Court yesterday where they both applied for bail, writes Kathryn Hayes.
Thomas Ryan (23), Shanabooly Road, Ballynanty, Limerick, and Tony O'Brien (23), Baker Place, Limerick, are both charged with assaulting Mr Ryan causing him harm on May 25th last at Fernbank, O'Callaghan Strand, Limerick.
Bail was approved in the case of Thomas Ryan but Judge Tom O'Donnell refused the bail application made on behalf of Tony O'Brien and remanded him in custody until June 14th next.
Asylum-seeker decision reversed
The Department of Justice has revised its decision to change the designation of Bridgewater House in Carrick-on-Suir from an accommodation centre for asylum-seeking families to one for single men.
A division of the department, the Reception Integration Agency, was considering petitions opposing the status of the centre.
The move would prevent asylum-seeking families living in Carrick-on-Suir from remaining there, it emerged.
However, the agency, at a meeting with the Carrick-on-Suir Town Council earlier this week, said it would give families the option to stay or move to self-catering accommodation elsewhere.