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Fri, July 30, 2010
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
"BOATING people don't care about the weather", commented President McAleese at the official opening of the 50th Shannon ...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
A FASHION show, 'Passion for Fashion', was held in The Bounty on Thursday, July 8, in aid South Westmeath Hospice. A tot...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
THE ISSUE of paid parking was again a heated topic at Thursday's Ballinasloe Town Council meeting. Cllr A McGrath sugges...
Wednesday, 28 July 2010
THE CONSTRUCTION of a flood defence wall in Derrymullen is not going far enough to protect his business from flooding, b...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
ADMIT it ladies. You've been biting at the bit, anticipating Ladies Day at this year's Galway Races in Ballybrit.Well gr...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
EURO Festival Sporting events get underway on Monday July 26th. The Basketball Tournament will be played at Our Lady's B...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
IRATE residents cheered and applauded at the failure of a proposed 10-storey office and retail park at Station Road to r...
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
GARRYHINCH Bog in Co. Offaly and a major storage reservoir there could be the answer to Dublin's water shortage, accordi...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
THE MUCH anticipated Euro-Festival Athlone (formerly known as the European Peoples Festival) takes place in less than tw...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
AMANDA Brunker, well known columnist, author and model, recently launched the 50th Shannon boat rally and a commemorativ...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
ASYLUM seekers, including those in the Athlone unit, are being kept for inhumane lengths of time while waiting processin...
Wednesday, 14 July 2010
SOLICITORS for two teens arrested and later released in the investigation into the murder of an Athlone pensioner are ca...
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
TUESDAY's Tidy Towns colouring contest was a winner among local national school children. This is the third occasion we ...
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
THE BOWLER, a bit of a Pie Thrower if truth is told, runs to the Crease and unleashes the Cherry in a Finger Spin Googly...
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
INDEPENDENT Athlone Town Councillor Sheila Buckley-Byrne was yesterday (Monday) elected unopposed as Mayor of Athlone.Th...
Wednesday, 7 July 2010
THE HEALTH Service Executive may be forced into what is potentially an embarrassing u-turn as they now look set to miss ...
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
THE CHAIRPERSON of the organising committee, was visibly pleased as the annual Athlone Agri Show drew to a close on Sund...
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
AMID jokes, laughter and good cheer TD Mary O'Rourke sang a few bars of Happy Days are Here Again.The occasion?Celebrati...
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
A GREAT degree of determination and anger was expressed at the third march through the town on Saturday with the aim of ...
Wednesday, 30 June 2010
IN WHAT would mark a major progression in gender equality, in only her second year as an elected official sitting on the...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
HEALTHY Fast Food.Sounds like a misnomer.Nutritionist Lynda McFarland says not so. "If we eat normal whole foods there...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
IT WAS like Rosemount had just won the football championship, one local person commented on Sunday as the local communit...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
THERE will be no Blue Flag for Athlone Marina this year, by choice.The town chose not to seek it after being refused the...
Wednesday, 23 June 2010
A SEQUENCE of events unfolded yesterday (Monday) afternoon which could have a defining and lasting affect on the future ...
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
A NUMBER of local projects, in Athlone and surrounding areas have been nominated in the Royal Institute of the Architect...
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
THIS SUMMER, hundreds of students from across the midlands will march to the BEAT and even try their hand at creating so...
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
A HOMELESS Action Plan developing strategies aimed at dealing with homelessness in the midlands region until 2013 has be...
Wednesday, 16 June 2010
"Loughloe House is closing. There is no going back on it," Mayor Mark Cooney said of the decision given elected official...
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
WOULD you get out of bed for €50,000? This is exactly what 17 local business people do when they meet for once-wee...
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
DID YOU watch the Green Dragon compete in the Volvo Ocean Race last year? Always wanted to learn how to sail but never q...
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
A SPECIAL sitting of Athlone District Court was held on Saturday afternoon following the dramatic capture of three men b...
Wednesday, 9 June 2010
"NEW SYSTEMS" have been introduced at NUI Galway and Athlone Institute of Technology to avoid a repeat of a situation th...
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
AN UPBEAT and determined meeting held at the Clann na nGael clubhouse on Thursday night left no one in any doubt that th...
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
AFTER 20 very successful years in business, Glendeer Farm, Drum, Athlone, has introduced these new animals to help celeb...
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
TWO directors from Specsavers in Athlone have their sights set on the ultimate challenge - climbing four mountains in th...
Wednesday, 2 June 2010
THIS weekend was a hype of activity for competitors, officials and supporters at the HSE Community Games National Finals...
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
THE SALUBRIOUS setting of the Clonmacnoise Suite in The Hodson Bay Hotel was the venue for the Annual Student Awards on ...
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
A CROWD of up to six hundred gathered on Sunday outside of St Mary's Church Athlone and, led by three Pipers and members...
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
ATHLONE librarian Gearoid O'Brien has been confirmed as officially opening this year's Goldsmith International Literary ...
Wednesday, 26 May 2010
A SUPER manager has been appointed at University College Hospital in Galway, who's remit will include Roscommon County a...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
Over 1,500 people showed up on Saturday afternoon, protesting the HSE's recent decision to close the Loughloe House reti...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
IRELAND's biggest triathlon, was launched in the Waterways Ireland Visitor Centre Grand Canal Dock by Liam Heavin, Chair...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
IT IS understood that at least one legitimate business premises in the Athlone area is currently being used as a front t...
Wednesday, 19 May 2010
RONALDO versus Skelly, Kaka versus O'Shea, Alonso versus Scullion and even the potential for a managerial face-off betwe...
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
ALL THAT preparation.All that cooking.When it came down to it, the cooks competing in the Roscommon Lamb Festival were e...
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
WORN OUT IS how many of those involved with the 2010 Drama Festival are feeling this week!Festival director Billy Nott s...
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
TRAVEL AGENCY OWNER Marie Grenham says her company's 99 years in business has seen much over the years.However, the acti...
Wednesday, 12 May 2010
THE SOUTH Westmeath Hospice facility in Athlone is to be staffed by HSE nurses and will open from the beginning of Septe...
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
IT WAS UNDER a sombre sky that the RTE ALL-Ireland Drama Festival kicked off as the region's biggest theatrical event on...
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
THE NEED for improved accommodation and carpark facilities is on the mind of AIT president of the student union Gary Cas...
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
A LOCAL Roscommon Garda has won a scholarship under the prestigious McCabe Fellowship Exchange Programme to live and stu...
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
STUDENTS and staff from Athlone VTOS met recently with two members of the Carers Association to present them with a cheq...
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
THREE males, all aged in their late teens are, at time of going to print (Monday), currently being held by Gardai in Ath...
Wednesday, 28 April 2010
TENDERS for the 3.2 million euro redevelopment of the Fr Mathew Hall as an Art Gallery are to be finalised within a fort...
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
The powers of Longford Town Council are being eroded and the County Manager is doing nothing about it according to membe...
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
ABOUT 200 ACRES of the Poolboy Bog in Ballinasloe has been reduced to ash, the fire service confirmed on Monday. The ext...
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
BALLINASLOE TOWN Council are being proactive in clearing accumulated rubbish along a stretch of the Poolboy Bog and near...
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
AN ATHLONE man who threatened paramedics at knifepoint while they attempted to help a stab victim at a local house has b...
Wednesday, 21 April 2010
IRISH pharmaceutical giant Élan has officially announced it is to investigate the possibility of separating its Athlone-...
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
AFTER a gala event held at The Athlone Springs Hotel on Saturday night Cathy Brougham, who comes from Gavnafelagh, near ...
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
THERE was great sadness yesterday (Monday) at the news that Catriona Kelly, widow of Moate native Private Paddy Kelly ha...
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
ONE OF three so-called headshops operating in the Athlone town area has closed its shutters for good with its owner simp...
Wednesday, 14 April 2010
GARDAI in Athlone have launched an investigation into an incident where a male was attacked last Sunday evening and stab...
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
SET IN modern times, "The Hooded Well" is a play that addresses the issues teenagers face when exposed to drugs and the ...
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
IT's back and it's better than ever. The 2010 RTE All-Ireland Drama Festival will take place from Friday April 30 runnin...
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
LAST WEEK saw members of the armed Garda Regional Support Unit drafted in by members of the Athlone Drugs Unit to offer ...
Wednesday, 7 April 2010
THE RESOUNDING disappointment that plans for a future state of the art Primary Care health facility for Athlone have bee...
