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X1SOFTWARE also announced its upcoming add-on for the Microsoft's Flight Sim X. Eurofighter EF2000 adds the latest multi-weapon air superiority platform to the latest and greatest civilian flight simulation. It features two versions of the Eurofighter, including the single seat fighter and the tandem trainer, and the most detailed physical model yet seen on the PC, giving the hungry pilot everything they could wish for. It has a highly detailed, completely active cockpit including working radar set. Shut down your engines and open your canopy and the ladder appears. Launch your weapons and watch them speed away. Climb into the rear seat, either online or via LAN and two pilots occupy the same aircraft. EF2000 also has animated features including flaperons, foreplanes, leading edge slats, the air braking system, an articulated landing gear and a drogue chute. It also features heat blur, cockpit reflections, bump mapping and much more. An authentic sound set completes the flying experience.

With 700 employees and 6,000 students, president of Athlone Institute of Technology Professor Ciarán Ó Catháin is at the peak of his learning curve. Eight years into his 10-year tenure, Ciarán takes the responsibility of running one of the midlands’ biggest employers in his stride.

Do you have an hour to spare on Friday November 28 at 1pm? Why not come along to the In Her Shoes Exhibition and the launch of Erris local area network opposing violence against women in the civic centre, Belmullet.

Like many other sports fans I am a big admirer of much of the material produced in the RTE sports department on both TV and radio.

Like many other sports fans I am a big admirer of much of the material produced in the RTE sports department on both TV and radio. Programmes on television like The Sunday Game, The Premiership, coverage of the rugby championship, the Olympics, World Cups, and the like are usually very professionally done and provide a lot of quality entertainment. My licence fee goes out by standing order every August and I have no real gripe with the television directors/producers who earn their crust out in Montrose. They do their job, and many of them do it very well. In our household we are becoming more radio than TV people anyway — old age and trying to set a good example to the children are taking their toll; I find myself listening to Morning Ireland and Drive Time much more now, sitting in traffic, keeping up to date with all the inward bound cut-backs, pay-cuts, or independent TD allowances that are indeed “entitlements” for the chosen few. Heaven.

Like many other sports fans I am a big admirer of much of the material produced in the RTE sports department on both TV and radio.

Ireland play England in a vital ESB u20 Six Nations rugby championship match at Dubarry Park, Athlone, on Friday evening, February 27 in what is likely to be the decisive game in this year’s championship.

Since 1998, the Guinness Kilkenny Rhythm and Roots Festival has attracted some of the finest names in the Americana canon; acts like Calexico, Giant Sand, Ryan Adams, Alejandro Escovedo, Mark Eitzel, Guy Clark, Ray La Montagne, Richmond Fontaine, Rodney Crowell...the list is very long, and these are but a few names who have been drawn to the magnet of the Marble City Mardi Gras in the past.

Two secondary schools in Westmeath have been twinned with local businesses, with the aim of helping young people stay in school and become more jobs-aware.

•Galway Golf Club: Galway Senior Scratch Cup, Played in testing blustery conditions, Aaron O’Callaghan (+1 Douglas G C) came from three shots behind to tie with the first-round leader Stephen Healy (+1 Claremorris GC) on 146. Stephen Healy went on to win the title on the third tie hole. They were followed on the scoresheet by Thomas O’Connor (Scr Athlone GC ) 148, Damien Coyne (1 Galway GC), and Mark Rowe (2 Athlone GC ). John Greene (1 Carlow GC) won the 1st nett on 150, while the 1st 18 gross was won by Joe Lyons