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Friends of a young man who is fighting for his life in Spain this week are leaving messages of love and support for him on his facebook page this week.

School pupils from Loreto, CBS, St Kieran’s and Kilkenny College, all members of Kilkenny Aqua Canoe Club, romped home with five medals at the recent Irish Schools Liffey Descent.

A Kilkenny man scooped two prestigious accolades this May Bank Holiday weekend at the Stormont Hotel, Belfast, where the Diamond Jubilee International Brotherhood of Magicians Irish Magic Championships took place.

CBS Kilkenny surpassed expectations when they came from nowhere to take the bronze medal in the All-Ireland U14 Olympic Handball Championship in Tallaght last Friday.

City school Coláiste Éinde enjoyed double success at the All Ireland Basketball League finals, claiming both the u-16C (pictured above) and u-19C boys’ titles.

•The annual Salthill-Knocknacarra Juvenile Hurling table quiz takes place in Sheridan’s bar, Knocknacarra on March 25 at 8pm. Tables of four cost €40 with prizes for first, second and third places. There will be a raffle on the night and finger food will be provided. All monies will go directly to the Salthill Knocknacarra juvenile hurling fund to assist with travel expenses, the provision of team gear, and the general running of the juvenile hurling club.

Kilkenny’s Ian Dowling has fast become a rugby great and is known as a talented winger who rarely puts a foot wrong. Dowling, who started for Munster in their 2006 and 2008 Heineken Cup final wins, is one of Ireland’s unsung rugby heroes.

It’s very hard to describe a true Irishman, without acknowledging that we all share a complicated inheritance. At no time was that complication more powerfully amplified than in the crisis of identity leading up to and during War World I. On the one side is the unionist image of Irish Protestants loyally, and exclusively, rallying to the Union Jack, and sealing that union with their blood; while on the other side, the Catholic and nationalist men and women, the people of the 1916 Rising, who represent the ‘true’ Ireland, in sharp contrast to the misguided Irishmen slaughtered in France on the altar of British imperialism.

A spree of robberies in Carlow over the Bank Holiday have gardaí looking for the public’s help.

Cryptic Studios this week announced that it has secured the global rights to develop and publish Star Trek Online, a massively multiplayer online game based on the legendary Star Trek franchise, from CBS Consumer Products.