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Velenosi Querciantica Verdicchio dei Castelli di Jesi Classico 2011 (widely available, €16)

The first SVP Paddy Run charity event takes place at 10am on the morning of St Patrick’s Day, Sunday March 17, starting at the Regional Sports Centre, Athlone.

This Sunday a special gathering of the football people of Ballinasloe, past and present, takes place when St Grellan's head to Kingspan Breffini Park for the All-Ireland Junior football semi-final against Armagh’s An Port Mór at 2pm.

The first winter of the war was unusually cold. Commander Bill King’s submarine Snapper served in the North Sea from April 1939 for 12 months. During that time it had numerous contact with enemy ships, mainly in the Skagerrat Strait, between the southeast coast of Norway and the southwest coast of Sweden.

The junior Minister for Defence has confirmed there will be no further changes to numbers stationed at Custume Barracks, Athlone.

“Daddy, daddy,” cried a little girl as the men and women of the 107th Infantry Battalion completed a walk-past at Custume Barracks on Wednesday afternoon.

Last Friday, September 21, Commander Bill King passed away surrounded by his adoring family at Oranmore Castle, aged 102 years. It is often said that a man was a legend in his life time, but no man truly deserved that accolade more than the late commander.

The United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki Moon visited United Nations Interim Force In Lebanon (UNIFIL) headquarters in Al Naquora, South Lebanon, on January 14 where he was greeted by Kilkenny troops.

It was a very different Christmas for troops of the 105th Infantry Battalion in Lebanon this year.

The season of good will is well and truly upon us by now and anyone with children with not be able to avoid the excitement of Christmas at this point.