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Katie Rowland — Knockaphunta Castlebar Co. Mayo. Construct a single-story dwelling house of overall floor area 230sq.m. The application includes all ...
Ciaran Brona Gavin wants to build a new single-storey house with a basement at Rathbaun in Castlebar. The house will be 264.5 square metres and include connections to existing drainage systems.
The Board of Management — Cloggernagh East Islandeady Castlebar F23HX85. The development will consist of removals, modifications and extensions to the existing school includ...
by Fiona Magennis A man has had his conviction for defiling a 16-year-old girl overturned, after the Court of Appeal found the trial judge “crossed a line” in his charge to the jury. The three-judge court struck down the conviction after hearing that the trial judge had suggested that if the jury re
A couple at Castlebar Circuit Court has been sentenced for child neglect after their two young autistic children were discovered living in severely unsanitary conditions. The 40-year-old father received an 18-month custodial sentence, with one year suspended, while his 37-year-old wife was handed a fully suspended two-year sentence, suspended for four years. Both pleaded guilty to two counts each of wilful neglect…
A jury at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court has returned a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict in respect of an aeronautical engineer charged with damaging telecommunications infrastructure across Mayo and Galway. Adrian Behan, aged 44 of Newport Road, Castlebar, faced 23 counts of criminal damage and 10 counts of theft relating to offences committed between September and October 2023. The jury's unanimous…
A man from County Mayo has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to 33 offences alleged to have occurred at telecommunications and utility sites across Mayo and Galway between September and October 2023. Adrian Behan, aged 44, of Ballyfarna, Belcarra, Castlebar, faces 23 criminal damage charges and 10 counts of theft. He was arrested on 13 September 2023 after gardaí discovered him cutting GPS cables belonging to…
A Knockmore man has been sentenced to four years in prison at Castlebar Circuit Court for offences including the savage mauling of a woman by his unmuzzled dog. David Barrett, aged 41, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following an attack on November 20th, 2022, at Mount Falcon estate. The victim sustained life-changing injuries including severe lacerations and puncture wounds requiring emergency surgery and…
A 47-year-old man from Swinford has pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following an incident in which he struck his brother with a shovel at their home in Cloongullaune on 27 July 2022. The victim was rendered unconscious and transported to Mayo University Hospital with a head injury, where imaging revealed fluid on the brain. He was discharged after three days but has since reported ongoing physical and…
A Workplace Relations Commission adjudicator has found that a 61-year-old Tesco worker was unfairly dismissed following the loss of a €20 note at a Castlebar store in 2023. Declan Kavanagh was suspended in October 2023 pending investigation and subsequently dismissed in January 2024 after a disciplinary process concluded he had misplaced the money. The adjudicator determined that while Mr Kavanagh did not place the…
A 33-year-old man convicted of defiling a child at his home has been granted bail pending his appeal against conviction at the Court of Appeal in Dublin. The man, whose identity is protected to safeguard the complainant, was convicted by majority jury verdict at Castlebar Circuit Court in 2020 of defilement and sentenced to two years imprisonment with the final year suspended. He was acquitted of a separate sexual…
A man in his fifties and a woman in her forties have been sentenced to a combined eight and a half years imprisonment at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following their conviction for the systematic abuse of six children over several years. The man received six years and three months, with nine months suspended, while the woman was sentenced to three years and nine months, also with nine months suspended. Judge…
At Castlebar Circuit Court, two parents have admitted to multiple counts of child cruelty following an investigation into the abuse of their six children. The case emerged after two teenagers walked into a garda station in the west of Ireland to report ongoing physical and emotional abuse. Over 188 secret audio recordings made by one of the young complainants were presented to the court, with extracts depicting…
A teenager has been awarded €700,000 by the High Court following the HSE's admission of liability for failures in ante-natal care at Mayo University Hospital in Castlebar during 2009. The girl, now aged sixteen, sued the health authority through her mother over circumstances surrounding her birth. The court heard that a cardiotocography monitor remained unconnected between 2am and 6am on the morning of delivery on…
A Castlebar man has pleaded guilty to three thefts totalling over €34,000 from a Lidl supermarket in Westport during the Christmas and New Year period of 2023. Mantas Kerusauska, aged 39, admitted to stealing €11,250 on Christmas Eve, €10,700 on December 29th, and €12,300 on New Year's Eve. Appearing at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court, the court heard that a gambling addiction described as particularly egregious…
PCC Investments is proposing to install a generator and fuel storage tank at Castlebar Primary Care Centre in Moneenbradagh. The equipment will be housed in an enclosure along with associated works. This is a new application currently being processed by Mayo County Council.
Kenneth Ralph — Derrycoosh Castlebar. retention permission for: 1. Domestic garage, 2. Airing shelter, 3. Alterations to the existing hous...
Sean & Nora O Sullivan — Manulla Castlebar. retention of extensions to existing dwelling house...
Viewpoint Properties Ltd — Mount Gordon Knockaphunta Castlebar, Co. Mayo. The development will consist of the following: 1) Construction of a housing development with a t...
Declan McGrath Patrick McGrath — Gortnafolla Turlough, Castlebar Co. Mayo. (1) the retention of 2 No. vehicle maintenance garages as constructed, (2) the retention of an exist...
Mícheál Healy — Knockacroghery, Castlebar, Co. Mayo F23 RK22. The development will consist of 1.) The demolition of an existing dwelling house and garage, and the...
JJA Woodworks Ltd is looking to turn a retail showroom at Barcastle Retail Park in Castlebar into a coffee shop. The plan includes some alterations to the building and new signage to advertise the new business.
Jason and Charlotte Gibbons — Knockanour Turlough Castlebar. The construction of a single two-storey detached dwelling house, domestic garage, sewage treatment s...
Michelle & Simon Dey is seeking permission extension and redevelopment of existing dwelling house, the installation of proprietary treatment unit and percolation area and all ancillary works at Lissaniska, Ballyvary, Castlebar. New Application.
MGB Land Holdings Ltd — Garryduff Park East site 1 Snugborough Castlebar. 1. Construction of a housing development (Garryduff Park East) of 55 no. dwellings in two and three...
James and Aine Caulfield — Ballinvoash Breaghwy, Castlebar Co. Mayo D04 W277. Planning Permission to construct a dwelling house and garage and an effluent treatment unit and perc...
Cian Lyons is seeking permission construction of a revised dwelling house to that granted Planning Permission under P24/433 at Corrabaun, Belcarra, Castlebar. New Application.
Asked the Minister for Education and Youth if the twenty-one students who attend a school (details supplied) and applied and paid for school transport through Bus Éireann can instead be accommodated on existing routes from Westport and Castlebar, following their own application being declined after all students were assessed as concessionary; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
Asked the Minister for Transport if his attention has been drawn to the extended waiting times of up to 70 minutes at Manulla Junction for passengers on the 7:28 a.m. Castlebar to Ballina service; the reason for the current timetable configuration which requires passengers to wait for the Athlone service; and if he will request Irish Rail to review this arrangement with a view to reducing delays a
Cases and rulings mentioning Castlebar from local newspapers and Courts News Ireland.
by Fiona Magennis A man has had his conviction for defiling a 16-year-old girl overturned, after the Court of Appeal found the trial judge “crossed a line” in his charge to the jury. The three-judge court struck down the conviction after hearing that the trial judge had...
A 23-year-old man from Ballina has pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following a violent incident outside St Mary's Secondary School in April 2021. Taylor Moran admitted attacking another youth with a claw hammer during a brawl involving a group of ten to twelve people in...
A couple at Castlebar Circuit Court has been sentenced for child neglect after their two young autistic children were discovered living in severely unsanitary conditions. The 40-year-old father received an 18-month custodial sentence, with one year suspended, while his...
A delivery driver has been sentenced to five months in prison at Castlebar Circuit Court after pleading guilty to careless driving causing the death of a seventy-six-year-old woman in Westport. Maureen Hopkins died following a collision with a lorry in the car park of SuperValu...
A jury at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court has returned a not guilty by reason of insanity verdict in respect of an aeronautical engineer charged with damaging telecommunications infrastructure across Mayo and Galway. Adrian Behan, aged 44 of Newport Road, Castlebar, faced 23...
A man from County Mayo has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to 33 offences alleged to have occurred at telecommunications and utility sites across Mayo and Galway between September and October 2023. Adrian Behan, aged 44, of Ballyfarna, Belcarra, Castlebar, faces 23...
A Knockmore man has been sentenced to four years in prison at Castlebar Circuit Court for offences including the savage mauling of a woman by his unmuzzled dog. David Barrett, aged 41, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following an attack on November 20th, 2022, at Mount...
A 47-year-old man from Swinford has pleaded guilty to assault causing harm following an incident in which he struck his brother with a shovel at their home in Cloongullaune on 27 July 2022. The victim was rendered unconscious and transported to Mayo University Hospital with a...
A 61-year-old man from Ballina in County Mayo has been sentenced to 11 and a half years imprisonment for sexually abusing five girls over nearly two decades. David Langdon pleaded guilty at Castlebar Circuit Court to seven sample counts of sexual assault on children aged...
A Workplace Relations Commission adjudicator has found that a 61-year-old Tesco worker was unfairly dismissed following the loss of a €20 note at a Castlebar store in 2023. Declan Kavanagh was suspended in October 2023 pending investigation and subsequently dismissed in January...
A 33-year-old man convicted of defiling a child at his home has been granted bail pending his appeal against conviction at the Court of Appeal in Dublin. The man, whose identity is protected to safeguard the complainant, was convicted by majority jury verdict at Castlebar...
A man in his fifties and a woman in her forties have been sentenced to a combined eight and a half years imprisonment at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following their conviction for the systematic abuse of six children over several years. The man received six years and three...
At Castlebar Circuit Court, two parents have admitted to multiple counts of child cruelty following an investigation into the abuse of their six children. The case emerged after two teenagers walked into a garda station in the west of Ireland to report ongoing physical and...
A teenager has been awarded €700,000 by the High Court following the HSE's admission of liability for failures in ante-natal care at Mayo University Hospital in Castlebar during 2009. The girl, now aged sixteen, sued the health authority through her mother over circumstances...
A Castlebar man has pleaded guilty to three thefts totalling over €34,000 from a Lidl supermarket in Westport during the Christmas and New Year period of 2023. Mantas Kerusauska, aged 39, admitted to stealing €11,250 on Christmas Eve, €10,700 on December 29th, and €12,300 on...
A ballet teacher from County Galway has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment, with the final year suspended, following his conviction for sexually assaulting two young girls at a dance school in County Mayo. Leighton Morrison, aged 49, of Tuam, pleaded guilty to six...
A Galway man has been sentenced to four years in prison, with the final year suspended, following a violent assault at a petrol station in Ballinrobe, Co Mayo in January 2023. Tommy Sweeney, aged 23, of Castlepark, Ballybane, pleaded guilty to assault causing harm and producing...
A ballet teacher from County Galway has been sentenced to eight years imprisonment, with twelve months suspended, following his conviction for the sexual abuse of two young girls during dance classes in County Mayo. Leighton Morrison, aged 49, of Tuam, pleaded guilty to six...
A 40-year-old woman from Ballina in County Mayo has pleaded guilty to possessing €62,000 worth of cannabis herb for sale or supply. Bernadette Muldoon, of St Patrick's estate, admitted the offence relating to drugs found at a different address on the same estate on 7 June last...
A man has been sentenced to three years imprisonment at Castlebar Circuit Criminal Court following his conviction for sexual offences against a woman in County Mayo. Jorge Paris, aged 62 and resident in Dublin, pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual assault and one of...