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With March zooming off into the distance, our gratitude to St Patrick for giving us the opportunity to be an island of saints and scholars begins to wane. But no such relief was given to the saint himself. Our forebears couldn’t wait till he died before they were taking bits and pieces from his body and clothes for relics. As his teeth fell out they were snatched up, and given as sacred objects to make early Christian churches more attractive for a deeply spiritual and suspicious people, who had recently set aside their gods of nature, and embraced a more intangible Christ. An old holy tooth was just the sort of tangibility they could understand. At least one church, Cill Fiacail (‘The church of the tooth’) near the town of Tipperary, bears testimony to this bizarre but common practice.

House Edit interiors experts, Claire Price and Elaine Regan, were at the recent opening of the new DFS store at Wellpark Retail Park. Together, the interior design duo offers 16 years of international design experience spanning Italy, London, and Ireland, and both look forward to offering DFS visitors tips and advice on how to create the perfect look.

Athlone Little Theatre, the intimate and atmospheric venue, is in final on and off stage preparation mode as 'The Father' commences an eight performance run from Saturday, April 6, until Saturday, April 13 (inclusive). With curtain up at 8pm, the final production of the season is certain to attract theatre enthusiasts to the St. Mary's Place location.

With March zooming off into the distance, our gratitude to St Patrick for giving us the opportunity to be an island of saints and scholars begins to wane. But no such relief was given to the saint himself. Our forebears couldn’t wait till he died before they were taking bits and pieces from his body and clothes for relics. As his teeth fell out they were snatched up, and given as sacred objects to make early Christian churches more attractive for a deeply spiritual and suspicious people, who had recently set aside their gods of nature, and embraced a more intangible Christ. An old holy tooth was just the sort of tangibility they could understand. At least one church, Cill Fiacail (‘The church of the tooth’) near the town of Tipperary, bears testimony to this bizarre but common practice.

In his famous statue of the writer and Irish scholar Pádraic Ó Conaire, the sculpture Albert Power presents a brilliant likeness to the man Galway knew as he went about the town. Liam Ó Briain, a friend and fellow Irish enthusiast, remarked that Albert Power had captured exactly how the man looked. Meeting Ó Conaire in town one evening, Ó Briain remembered that he looked in reality as he is on the statue: ‘the stick in his right hand, the little hat on his head’, a face that could show his ‘puckish humour.’ *

Sunday was a disappointing end to an otherwise positive league campaign for Galway, losing to Tyrone 0-13 to 2-17 at Healy Park, Omagh.

Roscommon Arts Centre are delighted to welcome the Oliver award winning theatre team that is Pat Kinevane and Fishamble: The New Play Company to their stage with their production 'Before' on Thursday, April 11, at 8pm. This is the team that created theatrical masterpieces such as 'Forgotten', 'Underneath' and the Oliver award-winning 'Silent'.

According to The Independent newspaper, French playwright Florian Zeller is ‘one of the hottest literary talents in France’ and he is still only in his thirties. One certainty about his plays to date is that nothing is ever certain. His intriguing 2014 play entitled, 'The Father', is no exception and is Athlone Little Theatre’s final production this season.

“On Thursday night a crowd numbering several thousand assembled inside the Square, and two men set to work sawing at the base of life-size bronze monument of Lord Dunkellin, a brother of the notorious landlord, Lord Clanricarde of Portumna. In a scene reminiscent of the downfall of Saddam Hussain’s statue in Baghdad, shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, a rope was fastened around Dunkellin’s neck, and with a mighty pull, down it fell amidst great applause.”

THE ST PATRICK'S Weekend at DNA nightclub kicks off tomorrow, with the 'Double Or Nothing' night. Get a poker chip on arrival, decide whether to hand it in for a complimentary drink or gamble it for a chance to win double drinks. Will you take the risk?