AN GARDA Síochána conducted two separate drug seizures in Co Carlow over the weekend, resulting in the confiscation of suspected illegal substances with a combined value of €9,000.

GARDAÍ are investigating two separate incidents of unlawful entry in the Carlow area over the past week. A house in a Graiguecullen housing estate was burgled on Sunday afternoon, 7 September, between 1pm and 3. 30pm.

A WOMAN’S purse was stolen while she was visiting a loved one’s grave in St Mary’s Cemetery, Carlow last week. The callous crime took place on Thursday 8 May at 11. 30am when the woman was in the graveyard.

DARREN Quigley was remembered for his ‘big heart’ and ‘jolly, cheeky little smile’ as his heartbroken family paid tribute to him at his requiem Mass on Saturday morning.