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HUBERT BUTLER, the Irish essayist, once denounced by a papal nuncio as a dangerous communist, is the subject of a film which will be screened in the Town Hall Theatre this evening at 8pm.

This very fine painting ‘Listed for the Connaught Rangers, recruiting in Ireland 1878’, was painted by Elizabeth S Thompson, but following her marriage to Lieutenant General Sir William Butler of Bansha Castle, Co Tipperary, is best known as Lady Butler. It is not only extremely unusual for a woman artist to have so successfully worked in the highly masculine field of military art, but Lady Butler was an exception in many ways. She was an innovator, particularly in her sensitive and humane depiction of the ordinary soldier. Detail was all important. She was a regular visitor to Chelsea Hospital, and other retirement homes for soldiers, to question survivors, sometimes getting them to re-enact a particular scene.

With television series such as Downton Abbey and Mr Selfridge highlighting the role of butlers in the service industry, the question begs, What secrets does a hotel butler keep? In keeping with its tradition for quality service, the Hotel Meyrick will host an evening with Head Butler from the Savoy Hotel London, Sean Davoren on Friday, March 28 to coincide with the launch of its newly refurbished ground floor facilities.

Butler house in Kilkenny has been short-listed as one of the top 10 hotels which ‘best define Ireland’.

The Butler Gallery at Kilkenny Castle is looking for young adults to partake in a summer art critic programme, which they are running for 16-19 year old youths.

Oranmore’s Olive Clarke (above) added another win to her growing list of achievements this year when she won the Leading Rider Prize at the Allianz Champions of the Year Show at Kill International Equestrian Centre.

A Kilkenny solicitor has had his accounts and assets frozen following a high court claim that he dishonestly took up to €850,000 from the estate of a client who had deceased.