A round-up of today's other stories in brief.
Council denies Supermac's banner claim
Galway City Council has denied ordering fast food outlet Supermac's to remove a banner supporting the Galway hurling team from its Eyre Square premises.
Owned by former Galway schoolteacher Pat McDonagh, Supermac's has sponsored the senior hurlers for the past 17 years. The banner, with its photograph of the All-Ireland semi-final team, went up before last Sunday's game.
Director of services at Galway City Council Ciarán Hayes said Supermac's had not been asked to take down the banner, contrary to media reports. But he said the banner did require planning permission and it was an unauthorised development.
Man unable to give employer's name
A man who works in the building industry but who was unable to tell a judge his employer's name or exactly where he worked was remanded in custody at Dundalk District Court yesterday.
Sergey Petrov, from Lithuania but who said he lived at Main Street, Waterford, was in custody after being charged with allegedly causing €500 damage to a car on Windmill Road in Drogheda last Saturday. He is also charged with a breach of the peace.
Through an interpreter he told Judge William Hamill that he was pleading guilty to the charges, was working and could pay compensation. When the judge asked him where he worked he replied "buildings." Judge Hamill said he was not prepared to deal with the case until he knew who the defendant was and where he lived and he remanded him in custody to Cloverhill Court on September 2nd.
New council for Bailieboro sought
A Fine Gael national executive member for the North East region, Seán McKiernan, has called for a new town council for Bailieboro, Co Cavan, to give local people more control over developments, planning and other local issues. He said yesterday that planning and development in Bailieboro were running out of control and many local people felt powerless about the pace of change and the town's ability to cope.
Wrong name on driving licence
A Dundalk man disqualified from driving after being convicted of drink-driving had his licence restored yesterday. It was the second time he made the application for his disqualification to be removed because when he first applied he discovered the conviction was recorded under the wrong name.
In Dundalk District Court yesterday solicitor Brian Johnson said his client, Seán O'Donogh (29), of Castleross, Castletown Road, Dundalk, accepted the conviction did relate to him and he had paid the fine imposed at the time.
O'Donogh was convicted in January 2004 and was disqualified, fined and his licence was to be endorsed.
But a new licence had been issued to O'Donogh although he was banned from driving. He applied for the new licence when his old one expired and it was only after checks were made with the county council that it emerged it was issued with the wrong name.