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14 N E W S

Galway Advertiser

June 17 2004

World Cup fevers hits city
BY MARY O'CONNOR A fun World Cup soccer tournament, which kicks off in the city next weekend, will promote social, personal and educational skills among young people. The event, which takes place on Friday June 25 and Saturday June 26 at the regional sports centre in Dangan, is being organised by Western Health Board staff and Foroige, the youth organisation. The weekend will promote self esteem, teamwork, friendship and sportsmanship, says a spokesperson for the WHB. "It will help young people integrate with others from around the country while also focusing on inter-cultural awareness from around the world." Some 32 teams (youth projects) representing different nations from around the world will take part in this annual event. The tournament will run along similar lines as the FIFA World Cup but there will also be a fun element to the weekend with various off-pitch activities taking place. There will be numerous prizes on offer including one for the most creative kit. "The various teams have been researching, working and designing sporting kits, national emblems, costumes and flags for the past number of months. In the past the opening ceremony gave us breathtaking displays of colour and insight into the culture of various nations from around the world," says the WHB spokesperson. Orla Curran, a project leader with the WHB's Westside Neighbourhood Youth Project and a member of the organising committee, says the creative kit competition is one of the highlights of the weekend and generates the most fun and laughter. "It is great after months of preparation by the young people to see their efforts bearing fruit in the opening ceremony and witness the knowledge they have gained about other cultures from around the world." Participants aged 14 to 16 years are spearheading a fundraising drive for GOAL, the Third World Charity's Street and Slum Children's projects in Nairobi in Kenya. They raised more than 5,500 for GOAL last year. The tournament, which will be opened by WHB chief executive, Dr Sheelah Ryan, will kicks off on the Friday morning with a performance by The Mike Arrigan School of Contemporary Music.

Prison sentence for sacked employee who stole from his employer
A Lettermore man with a grievance who stole over 28,000 worth of equipment from his former employer at a building site near his home, was sentenced to three years in prison with the last two years suspended at Galway Circuit Criminal Court. Joe Joyce (33), Tiernee, Lettermore, pleaded guilty to stealing a sixton dumper, valued at 25,395, on February 3, 2003, from the building site situated at the rear of TG4 at Ballinahoun, Spiddal. He also admitted stealing a rock drill, valued at 1,532, a whacker plate, worth 1,015, a blow torch, 200, and a steel petrol can and paint scraper, total value 130 on the same date. Mr Conor Fahy, BL, prosecuting said Joyce went to the construction site during the night and put all the smaller items into the dumper and drove away. He later hid some of the items in his house and the dumper under bales of hay in a shed. Prior to the thefts Joyce had been employed on the same building site but was laid off when he went on the drink after Christmas. Mr Fahy contended the thefts had been carried out in a premeditated manner by Joyce following a night's drinking. The court heard the accused man had previous convictions for larceny, burglary and assault and had received terms of imprisonment for those in the late 1990s. Sergeant Tom Molloy who investigated the thefts at the time said Joyce admitted he had a grievance with his former employer because he didn't get holiday pay he felt he had been entitled to. Defence barrister, Ms Deirdre Browne, BL, said her client looked older than he actually was because of his chronic drink problem. He had been drinking since he was 17 and there was now a history of depression, she said. Judge Harvey Kenny said theft was a serious offence but stealing from one's employer was even more serious. He sentenced Joyce to three years in prison but suspended the last two years of the sentence on condition that Joyce come under the care of the probation service on his release from prison, partake in alcohol treatment and rage management courses and remain alcohol free for the duration of the suspended sentence.

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