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January 13 2005

Galway Advertiser

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Arsonist given College graduates hold another chance race night to help after breaching Sri Lankan school terms of suspended sentence
BY MARY O'CONNOR A Ballinasloe youth who was involved in setting fire to a petrol filling station near his home over five years ago, causing more than 87,600 worth of damage, was due to have a suspended three-year sentence activated this week at Galway Circuit Criminal Court because he breached terms of the suspension but, instead, he was given a reprieve thanks to a favourable probation report and was remanded on bail to next April. Brian Fogarty was 16 when he and another youth, who was more culpable and who has served a prison sentence for his part in the crime, committed the arson at Dillon's Shell Filling Station on November 24 1999. Detective Garda Pat Shannon gave evidence when the case was first heard in July 2002, that a passing motorist saw flames coming from the back of the premises in the early hours of the morning and reported it. However by the time the fire brigade arrived on the scene the premises was already well alight and a second engine had to be sent for. Detective Shannon said the accused and another youth drank vodka at the back of the filling station that night and later stacked tyres they found in a tyre bay at the back of the premises against a wall and set them alight. The fire got out of hand, resulting in it spreading and causing extensive damage to the premises. A three-year sentence, suspended for three years, was imposed on Fogarty in 2002. The sentence was suspended on condition he behaved himself and kept the peace for three years. He was also directed to remain under the care and supervision of the probation service for three years and abstain from alcohol. The matter was reviewed in January 2004, after Fogarty breached the terms of the suspension when he "broke out" and went on a drinking binge during Christmas, 2003. He was taken into custody and the case was re-entered by the State to have the suspended sentence activated. Strong pleas for leniency at the time prevented Judge Moran from activating the sentence, and along with an encouraging probation report he adjourned the matter for one year. In court this week Detective John Fahy said Fogarty had again relapsed, had been drinking on the run-up to Christmas, and had got into trouble. Charges were pending in the District Court in relation to that, he added. Defence solicitor Sean Acton said his client had lost his job at the time of this most recent relapse but was now off drink again and looking for other employment. Fogarty's barrister Ms Waldron admitted her client had relapsed by drinking for a couple of days at a time, in April, June, and August of last year as well as last December. She said he had recovered well after all of these "blips" and was back in the aftercare programme and on antibooze tablets again. She told the court the probation service had recommended in a report handed into court that her client return to Harristown Treatment Centre which had helped him in the past. Judge Moran said the prosecution had reentered the case last year because Fogarty had misbehaved during the suspension of the threeyear sentence and had done so again recently. He noted that once the case was disposed of Fogarty's inhibitions about drinking would possibly go. "What am I to do? Knowing he will go off the rails once it's disposed of," the judge said. The judge said the probation service was recommending the accused be given more time to rehabilitate himself. He then adjourned the matter to April 18 for an up-to-date probation report and on condition the accused abstain from alcohol, obey all directions of the probation service, and submit to random blood or urine tests in the meantime. The judge also recommended Fogarty attend Harristown Treatment Centre and he told the accused he would review his case in April. A group of NUI Galway psychology graduates - who spent the summer working as volunteers with the Brothers of Charity in schools and centres for children with special needs in Sri Lanka - have changed the focus of their fundraising plans in the wake of the Tsunami disaster. When the 20 graduates returned home in September they set about raising money to build and furnish a multisensory room in the Montessori section of the school where they worked. "However, now in light of the recent Tsunami disaster which has caused unimaginable death, destruction and suffering, the money will be sent to the Brothers of Charity in Sri Lanka to assist in the provision of clean water, food, medicines and shelter to the victims of this

disaster," explains Eadaoin Coleman, a spokesperson for the group. "The very school and training centre where we lived and worked is now being used to house some of the million people who are homeless and have lost everything, their homes, livelihoods and families." A fundraising race night will be held on Friday January 28t at 8pm at An Pucan, Forster Street. There will be lots of spot prizes on the night. For more information or to sponsor a race (200),buy a horse (20) or to place an advertisement in the racing booklet, please contact Emer at (087) 7760301, Eadaoin at ( 085) 7250517, Aine at (086) 3998858 or Kate at (087) 9594549. Donations can also be made to the group's Sri Lanka Fund, Bank of Ireland account No: 13196858 (NUI Galway branch).

Local hair salon gets 5 star rating
The Eyre Street hairdressers Zenith has been awarded a 5 Star rating from the Good Salon Guide - an independent standards assessing service for the hairdressing industry in Ireland and the UK. The guide is a kitemark for quality in hairdressing and assesses salons in a similar way to the wellknown AA or RAC hotel guides. More than 1,600 salons are listed in the guide. Claddagh born owner of Zenith, Paul Griffin is delighted with the salons inclusion in the guide; "The Good Salon Guide is the long awaited measure that enables clients to know their hairdresser is a true professional." Zenith moved to Eyre Street last year from High Street, and is now located in the same unit as Serenity - one of Galway's newest beauty salons. Other hairdressers to achieve 5 Star ratings from the Good Salon Guide include Toni & Guy, Eden Contemporary Hairdressing, and Mahindram Ramdam Salon.

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