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A group of fifth year Galway Community College students visiting Dáil Éireann today plan to meet local TDs in a bid to garner support for their petition asking that medals be awarded to the the officers and NCOs of A Company, 35th Battalion, for their acts of bravery during the 1961 Siege of Jadotville.

Sixty pupils from third to sixth class in Northampton National School, Kinvara, have contributed to Across An Open Field is the first Irish history book written and illustrated by children.

LIAM MELLOWS, the Republican Socialist and leader of the 1916 Rising in Galway - the county which saw the highest level of activity outside Dublin - will be commemorated at a series of events this month.

Athlone Musical Society is hosting an all-singing all-dancing fundraising event on Thursday, November 3, in the Radisson Blu Hotel.

The Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar continues its autumn world cinema season with tour-de-force French thriller Dheepan on Tuesday October 11 at 8pm.

A ceremony took place in Custume Barracks last Saturday (September 17) to honour the actions of the men of ‘A’ Company, 35th Infantry Battalion and its attachments at the Battle of Jadotville.

There are so many discussions we could have in this column this week regarding the theme of heroism and bravery. Napoleon Bonaparte once said - “Valour is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it until the test comes”.

On Wednesday, September 14, Athlone Musical Society launched ‘Battle of the Musicals’ in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone.

Galway soldiers will be heading on a new United Nations mission next week with the 54th Infantry.

DOROTHY PARKER was famed for her wit, which could be as brilliant as it was nasty, but it is often forgotten that she was a civil rights activist, a supporter of Martin Luther King, and chronicler of the Spanish Civil War.