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Athlone-based Senator, Gabrielle McFadden has welcomed home the 109th Infantry Batallion after their tour of duty in the Lebanon and spoke of the pleasure of seeing the soldiers being reunited with their families.

The Manchester bombing has been condemned as “a vile atrocity” by the Galway Alliance Against War, but it added that the terrorist incident will generate more coverage than similar attacks in the Middle East, by virtue of it happening in the West.

'The Men of the West', that iconic photograph of Michael Kilroy's flying column taken with only the aid of natural light on the southern slopes of Nephin at 11.45pm on the longest day of the year in 1921, is known to us all. It hangs in numerous Mayo pubs and homes and thanks to the quality of the conditions and the skill of the photographer, we can clearly see the resolute expressions of the young men, we know their names and know their stories. But what of the photographer himself? What of the man who captured this first ever photo of an IRA unit on active service in Ireland? Jack Leonard did not just happen upon Kilroy and his men that bright June night. He was no amateur photographer, and neither was he a bystander during his country's fight for freedom. With a keen sense of duty, Leonard used his talent to capture all aspects of Mayo life in the early twentieth century. Jack 'JJ' Leonard was born in 1882 in Crossmolina and as a young man he trained in journalism and photography in London. He returned to Ireland in 1906 to set up his photography business at a time when the country was in political flux. Emotions and anger remained after the Land War in Mayo, a period of civil unrest and violence in the late 1800s, and the methods of parliamentary nationalists were now being challenged by physical force republicans.

Athlone-based Senator, Gabrielle McFadden, has praised the members of the 110th Infantry Battalion who travel this week to serve with the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

Roscommon Arts Centre is to present Project Cleansweep, a critically acclaimed body of work by RAC Contemporary Photography Award winner, Dara McGrath.

EL SUR, made in 1983 and regarded as one of the finest Spanish films of all time, will be screened in Seanscoil Sailearna, Indreabhán, this evening at 8.15pm.

It was the action that went down in military history as much for its commanders’ incompetence as for its soldiers’ perceived heroism.

The nationalist Irish Volunteers were established in November 1913 as a response to the formation of the unionist Ulster Volunteers in 1912. Members of the Provisional Committee of the Irish Volunteers selected areas around the country which they would visit with the aim of setting up Volunteer companies. Committee member Colonel Maurice Moore of Moorehall in Carnacon outside Castlebar chose to return to his home county to organise and mentor the men of Mayo. Moore had military experience since the 1870s with the Connaught Rangers and was well respected by both traditions.

Renowned group Gary Lawlor and The Rebels will play in The Tack Room this coming Saturday night, March 4. Head on down for a night of great entertainment in one of Athlone's most welcoming local watering holes.

HANG ON brings the suited denizens of the business world into the sumo wrestlers’ circle of combat, and in the process mixes an aerial dance trapeze duet with a musical performance, all wrapped up in the battle of the sexes.