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A Christmas parade held in Kilbeggan two weeks ago may become an annual tradition, if the response from the public to the event is anything to go by.

Seventy soldiers from Westmeath met with Taoiseach Brian Cowen yesterday when he paid a visit to Irish troops serving in Kosovo.

A former Garda sergeant and Moate native attempted to pay prostitutes to get children as young as five for sex a year after he had been released for a similar offence, Dublin Circuit Criminal Court has heard this week.

Students from Holly Lodge Girls' College, Liverpool; Davitt College in Castlebar, and the Istituto D'Istruzione Superiore in Roseto, Italy with the help from Ryanair Europe’s largest low cost airline are transporting a 13 piece mosaic path to Castlebar in Ireland to celebrate World Peace. The Peace Path will be laid on the new Castlebar Riverside Walk.

The Danish government has recently begun paying compensation to women who have developed breast cancer after long spells working nights following a ruling by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), an arm of the UN's World Health Organisation.

Prizes for this year’s Mullingar St Patrick's Day Parade will be presented at an awards ceremony in the Greville Arms Hotel (Belvedere Suite) this Friday March 27 at 8pm.

TOMMY TIERNAN is about to undertake his greatest challenge yet. In the Nuns Island Theatre during the Easter weekend, he will attempt to perform 36 hours of non-stop stand up comedy in an attempt to enter the Guinness Book Of Records. What can we expect? “Imagine the Sex Pistols doing an album of ballads!” he says.

A major conference “Ireland: A New Vision and Direction” will be held in the Castlebar Campus of Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) on Saturday April 4.

When the Volvo Ocean Race was launched in Alicante, Spain, there were no flyovers by warplanes, so why should the British air force be invited to Galway?