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A local girl, who lost her mother to cancer last year, is preparing to sacrifice one of her most prized attributes in order to raise funds for the Irish Cancer Society.

Westport dairy farmer Michael Lyons has won the top award in the Connacht Gold Milk Quality Awards. Mr Lyons came top of the class among the 875 milk producers who supplied Connacht Gold in 2010.

Westport dairy farmer Michael Lyons has won the top award in the Connacht Gold Milk Quality Awards. Mr Lyons came top of the class among the 875 milk producers who supplied Connacht Gold in 2010.

Westmeath County Library Service welcomed storyteller Aideen McBride to Kilbeggan and Moate Libraries to help celebrate READiscover your library month.

Sir Roger Casement was a notable humanitarian and a British consul by profession but, ironically, an anti -Imperialist by nature. He over-stepped his diplomatic role to fiercely condemn Belgium for its brutalisation of the people of Congo*. His report, published in 1904, was however, well received by the British establishment, perhaps because it feared that little Belgium was getting too big for its boots, and too wealthy from its African ventures. Casement received a knighthood.

At 11:30am on Wednesday August 11th Fergal Somerville kissed his wife Margaret and dived off the pier at Inis Meáin. The final component of the 2010 Aran Lifeboat Challenge had started in conditions that were far from ideal.

One of Kilkenny’s best loved drapers has been laid to rest.

A wonderful, warm and intelligent journalist/farmer passed away last week, leaving thousands of people who knew him saddened and in mourning following his loss.

Tributes have been pouring in following the death on Wednesday this week of recently retired Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, and Roscommon native, Lieutenant General Dermot Earley.

ELECTRIC BRIDGET make a welcome return to the Galway Arts Festival with the premiere of Eileen Gibbons’ new play, The Grippe Girls.