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Businesses from all over Westmeath and Offaly are invited to participate at a business-to-business networking event in the Mullingar Park Hotel on Thursday September 15.

The pressure is mounting ahead of this weekend’s relegation finals in Westmeath’s senior and intermediate championship. Athlone and Tubberclair will battle it out in Tang on Saturday evening at 6pm. At the same time in Rosemount Moate and Ballinagore go head to head for the right to retain their intermediate status.

There have been a total of 14 visits by the IDA to sites in the Midlands Gateway so far this year.

Youth projects in Athlone are to benefit from over €86,500 in funding to improve their facilities and services.

Athlone Midland Samaritans need additional volunteers.

Local woman Lesley Wingfield has been announced as the first artist in residence at the new Abbey Road Artists’ Studios which will open their doors on Friday September 16. She will be joined by two more artists in the coming weeks.

The start of the autumn heralds an exciting new season for Athlone Film Club, which marks the club’s third year of entertaining Athlone audiences with classic and contemporary films in the Dean Crowe Theatre.

Athlone’s Literary Festival has announced its 2011 line-up. It features diverse events such as a creative writing workshop with Big Smoke Writing Factory, discussions with poet Gabriel Rosenstock and writer Nuala Ni Conchuir, and an interview with Ruth Dudley Edwards.

Due to ongoing road maintenance on the N6 Athlone Relief Road, the following traffic restrictions are now in place until approximately September 2.

The only Roscommon man ever to play rugby for Ireland, Leo Galvin, is one of those featured in the new book, 100 Irish Rugby Greats. Born into a farming family in Taughmaconnell, Galvin’s career with Athlone and Connacht spanned three decades. A former captain and president of Athlone RFC and Connacht, he was one of the driving forces behind the club’s amalgamation with Ballinasloe to form Buccaneers.