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Former maths teacher, Jessica Burke secured her maiden five-star show jumping success at an exalted level, bagging the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup class in Bordeaux on Saturday with her rising star, Good Star du Bary.

All winter long in my childhood, our three lake boats lay like part of the furniture of the yard — upturned shapes against the shed wall, collecting frost and leaves, holding their silence. They were parts of our livelihood in those lean mean seventies, though as children we thought of them as playthings. From October to February they hibernated, dripping dry after months of wave and rain, their floorboards stacked indoors nearby, their oars resting like folded arms. I often imagined them talking to one another in the dark — trading stories of sudden squalls, of rocks struck in shallow bays, of whispered confidences between gillie and angler, of trout that flashed silver in the half-light before lying still on the ribs beneath the boards.

Sunday night movies begin at 8pm, Monday's at 7.30pm.

Connacht Rugby is celebrating the promotion of captain Cian Prendergast to the Ireland team for this week’s Six Nations opener at Stade de France.

The Athy family is of great antiquity in Galway. According to Hardiman they were “From the earliest times highly respectable." They are descended from Gerard de Athee who was born in France at Athee sur Cher. He was a well-known knight and military leader for Richard the Lionheart, King of England.

What if this year you decided to take up a new language, refresh your school French, or even avail of greater job opportunities? Would you like your children to get a head start in French or achieve a H1 in their Junior or Leaving Cert examinations? Then, the French Institute has a course for you.

The Celtic World: A History, from Four Courts Press, will be introduced by renowned medievalist and scholar of the Hill of Tara, Edel Bhreathnach.

What if this year you decided to take up a new language, refresh your school French, or even avail of greater job opportunities? Would you like your children to get a head start in French or achieve a H1 in their Junior or Leaving Cert examinations? Then, the French Institute has a course for you.

By Amy Joyce

Connacht are on the hunt to ensure a best possible seeding by bagging maximum points in their final European Challenge Cup pool fixture against Montauban on Saturday in Dexcom (8pm).