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It’s 1,400 years since Bealtaine was last celebrated on the Hill of Uisneach, but this weekend hundreds of people are expected to make the trip to the historic Westmeath site for a very special event on Saturday.

St Patrick’s Drama Group will stage Tom Coffey’s Them in Scoil Padraig National Scoil, Altamount Street, Westport from Tuesday January 6 to Saturday January 10. This is a powerful production and certainly, an emotive one. This unique play demonstrates a sharp contrast between comedy and tragedy within its three acts. Them was first produced in 1963. It is set in 1960s Ireland, in a time when those with intellectual disabilities were seldom accepted as special people. Like the character of Johnsie in Tom Coffey’s play, who was an embarrassment and almost a nuisance to some, and simply misunderstood by others, these special people were not to be seen or spoken about.

An horrific road traffic incident in the US on Sunday evening killed a Galwaywoman, her husband and has left their three Irish children orphaned.

Everybody involved in GAA circles in the county was shocked and saddened to hear on Monday the tragic news of the death of Ann Coleman from Abbeyknockmoy and her husband Joe O’Connell from Kerry in a car crash outside Chicago last Sunday night.