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Lelia Doolan, the renowned film producer, lecturer, theatre director, and a woman whose energy fizzles if confronted by a cause she feels needs a champion, will launch the 17th Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering on Friday September 23.

Kilkenny city has once again been deemed ‘clean to European norms’ in a recent survey conducted by Irish Business Against Litter (IBAL).

Kilkenny’s three Special Olympics athletes returned home this week, bringing with them their entourage of supporters, as well as a new collection of medals and ribbons to show for their efforts.

A Galway resident has had €35,050 confiscated and forfeited to the State after a Dublin Circuit Criminal Court judge ruled it represented the proceeds of crime.

A lucky couple has won their wedding and honeymoon with Radisson Blu on Today FM’s Ray D’Arcy show.

Three Lithuanian men have had five-year sentences for robbery suspended on condition they go home and don’t return to Ireland for 10 years.

Galway athletes have claimed a memorable cross country title, winning the men’s intermediate team championship in Dublin at the weekend.

In his interesting biography of Eamon de Valera*, Diarmaid Ferriter reports that in December 2000 gardaí seized 24 love letters from de Valera to his young wife Sinéad, which were being advertised for auction by Mealy’s of Castlecomer. It was believed that the letters were stolen in the mid 1970s from the de Valera family home. The owners, who had bought them in England some years previously in an effort to ensure their return to Ireland, were unaware that they had been stolen.

This Christmas saw 50 children from the most affected regions of the Chernobyl disaster spend their Christmas holidays in Ireland. Despite an eventful arrival of three flight diversions, snow blizzards and 3,000 miles of travel the children arrived safely and were welcomed by their host families at Dublin Airport.

A judge voiced an opinion on insurance companies in the District Court last week in a drink driving case when he referred to the defendant moving from Quinn to Axa as going “from the frying pan to the fire”.