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Connacht’s hardened approach to gaining Heineken Cup qualification gets its first big test tomorrow night when the Magners League season opens.

Connacht’s hardened approach to gaining Heineken Cup qualification gets its first big test tomorrow night when the Magners League season opens.

Connacht have been forced to make a couple of changes for their first away match in this season’s second Magners League fixture.

Connacht have been forced to make a couple of changes for their first away match in this season’s second Magners League fixture.

An audience with novelist and playwright Dermot Bolger, a reading by human rights activist Colm O’Gorman, a workshop on how to write your memoir and a debate on the burning questions of the day are just a few of the key attractions of this year’s Athlone Literary Festival which takes place from Friday September 25 to Sunday September 27. Organisers of the festival have compiled an intriguing and diverse schedule of events for the annual event, which is now becoming a fixture on the cultural calendar of the region. For those excited by the cut and thrust of debate and discussion on some of the vital questions in this turbulent time, The Big Question on Friday evening is tailor-made.

One half of Westmeath’s most famous duet, Mr Tony Allen, was given a six month reprieve in court this week (September 16) in his ongoing case against not filing annual tax returns in time, when the judge referred to a letter of reassuarance from his former accountant as “a forgery”.

One half of Westmeath’s most famous duet, Mr Tony Allen, was given a six month reprieve in court this week (September 16) in his ongoing case against not filing annual tax returns in time, when the judge referred to a letter of reassuarance from his former accountant as “a forgery”.

Kilkenny’s annual Celtic Festival is kicking off this weekend with a programme that is enticing Celts from all over the world for more reasons than one.

An all-new Ford C-MAX range made its global debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show but it will not go on sale here until the second half of next year.

FRANCES HODGSON Burnett’s much-loved children’s story The Secret Garden is among the attractions at the Galway Theatre Festival where it is being staged in a new adaptation by Moonfish Theatre Company.