Connemara Village Numbed After Tragic Weekend

THE small village of Minna, nverin suffered a double low at the weekend with the ragic deaths of two women within hours of one another.A local woman in her late forties was killed in a two car collision on the main Galway/ Carraroe road less than a mile from her house at 9.45pm on Saturday – and 24 hours later another woman’s body was found in a drain outside a house less than a mile away.The two deaths are unrelated and on Tuesday a young man appeared before a special sitting of Galway District Court on Tuesday in connection with the death of Nicola Vankova, a 19 years old Czech Republic national who was living at Cartúr Leathan for the past 18 months.Jakub Fidler (22) with an address at Cartúr Leathan, Inverin was formally charged before the Court with Section 3 of the Non Fatal Against the Persons Act causing harm to Ms Vankova at the same address on July 21.Fidler, a Czech Republic national, said no through an interpreter when charged just before the Court sitting but said nothing during the five minute Court hearing.Detective Sergeant Tom Molloy asked that Fidler be...