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County and City Enterprise Boards are hosting a national workshop for people over 50 who are thinking of starting their own business, or in the early stages of a start-up. The workshop will be held in the Hodson Bay Hotel, Athlone on July 1 and 2.

A total of 57 transition year students from Athlone Community College recently participated in the Gaisce bronze award programme In the Wake of the Vikings at Baysports at Hodson Bay.

The presidents of NUI Maynooth and Athlone Institute of Technology have announced the formation of a new strategic partnership between their institutions. The partnership will facilitate collaboration in undergraduate and postgraduate programmes; student access and progression; research, commercialisation, and entrepreneurship; and internationalisation.

Entrepreneurs in Westmeath with an innovative business idea can now apply for the New Frontiers 2013 programme commencing in July. Athlone Institute of Technology in partnership with NUI Maynooth will deliver the programme in the Midlands Mid-East region.

Nominations for the MidlandsIreland.ie Best in Business Awards are now being sought. Hosted by the Midlands Gateway Chamber these annual awards, now in their third year, celebrate excellence and innovation in businesses across the Midlands.

The search for specs-wearing beauties is getting underway this weekend as Specsavers Athlone launch their campaign to discover Athlone’s best specs wearers for this year’s Irish Spectacle Wearer of the Year competition 2013. A specs scouting evening will be held at the Prince Bar, Church Street, Athlone at 9pm this Saturday May 18.

Set in a building with a beautiful history as a Presbyterian church, The Locke Restaurant on The Docks in Athlone is celebrating its first birthday and has become a true local favourite.

ThereisBear! Theatre is proud to present an exciting new summer of theatre projects. The Galway theatre company will be producing Tony Kushner’s classic Angels in America for a national tour in May and June including a stint in Athlone Little Theatre from June 6-8. They are also offering a Junior and Leaving Cert Shakespeare Workshop to schools in order to enable students to prepare for questions on the plays for this year’s State exams.

Athlone Little Theatre’s latest production, the award winning Calendar Girls opens next Monday night, May 20, in the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone at 8pm.

One of Ireland’s favourite live bands will be returning to Scribes, in AIT next Wednesday May 22.