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The football boots momentarily put to one side, it was a sporting occasion to remember for Athlone GAA stalwarts, John Egan and Fergal Murray, both of whom completed their first Dublin City Marathon on Sunday last.

Grateful transplant recipients, living kidney and liver donors and courageous families of deceased organ donors from Athlone and its immediate hinterland were numbered amongst those in attendance for the Irish Kidney Association 38th Annual Service of Remembrance & Thanksgiving in Mullingar recently.

Athlone IT recruitment agency Solas IT Recruitment has raised €10,000 in donations to support the work of the Irish Kidney Association.

A Midlands couple exchanged wedding vows during the recent August bank holiday weekend, grateful for their shared good health, made possible by the groom donating a kidney to his bride two years ago.

Athlone GAA in association with Marsh Nissan Athlone/Tullamore, the Sheraton Athlone Hotel and the Irish Kidney Association launched the club’s car draw fundraising initiative on Friday night last.

Galway endured a nightmare start to their Allianz League campaign when they ran into a runaway Kerry train in Tralee this afternoon (Saturday) losing by nineteen points to a home team obviously still stung by their late capitulation to Cork last autumn.

The wait for a return to the showpiece fixture of Westmeath club football continues for Athlone following a narrow defeat to Tyrrellspass in the semi-final of this year’s prized competition in TEG Cusack Park, Mullingar, on Sunday afternoon.