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The sun basked in the sky as President McAleese arrived in Westport to celebrate the picturesque town’s achievement in last year’s Tidy Towns Awards. As the Presidential cavalcade drove into the Westport Leisure Centre, a sea of decorative caricatures, flag bearing children, and bystanders who were basking in the lovely weather, greeted Mary McAleese and her husband Martin.

Students and teachers from Scoil Barr na Trá, Ballina had their very own red-carpet moment with President Mary McAleese in Croke Park as they were honoured by Foras na Gaeilge for showing the way in promoting spoken Irish in their schools and communities under the GLEO 2009 awards.

President Mary McAleese can unashamedly support Kilkenny at Croke Park from now on, she was told on Tuesday morning at Kilkenny castle when she became just the third person still living to have the freedom of the city bestowed upon her.