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Kilkenny boxer Darren O’Neill has qualified for next year’s Olympic Games in London following another comprehensive victory at the World Championships in Azerbaijan.

The ‘Arab Spring’ revolutions which have swept through North Africa and the Middle East, have seen brutal dictators ousted and demands for democracy and liberty.

Middle Eastern visitors to next year’s Volvo Ocean Race Stopover in Galway will be treated to a sneak preview of what’s on offer in the city.

On June 12 1922 a very special ceremony took place at Windsor Castle, near London. Following the establishment of the Irish Free State the previous December, five Irish regiments, including the Connaught Rangers, the Royal Irish, the Leinsters, the Munsters, and the Dublin Fusiliers, which had served the British army with exceptional valour at times, were disbanded. It was a day of special significance for both the participants and onlookers. It was reported in the London Times.

Old time American music at the Linenhall

Old time American music at the Linenhall

Olivier Pett and Lauren Briggs pulled of a surprise English double in the Paddy 'Whack' Walsh West of Ireland Squash Open at Galway Lawn Tennis Club in Galway.

MOHAMED ALTAWIL could have been another Palestinian youth throwing rocks at Israeli soldiers and tanks, but it was his father who encouraged him to seek a different path.

Ireland’s oldest surviving townhouse and Kilkenny’s newest venue presents Simon Fagan live at The Hole In The Wall, on January 15.