Mon, September 06, 2010
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
Athlone Literary Festival Friday 24th September to Sunday 26th September. Festival committee chairman, Jarlath Duffy say...
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
LIFE IN the Middle Ages meant flint and stone to light fires and a slow loading musket for protection.Tuesday's celebrat...
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
THE FAMILIES of the 11 remaining residents at under-threat local nursing home Loughloe House are "thankful" but admit to...
Wednesday, 1 September 2010
UNCERTAINITY continues about a threatened closure of Portiuncula Hospital's oncology unit, as the HSE remains tight-lipp...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
A BALLINAHOWN man had a wonderful sporting achievement over the weekend when athlete Mark Rohan secured Ireland's first ...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
SUNDAY was a busy day for All Ireland Fleadh competitor Audrey Murphy.The 20-year-old from Ross, Glasson, performed in t...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
THE RELEASE of the Irish Business Against Litter's first round results on Monday show improvement has been made in both ...
Wednesday, 25 August 2010
ENRAGED residents and councillors of Ballinasloe vowed in a meeting on Thursday to back up the Ballinalsoe Environment A...
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
Kilbeggan tidy towns with the able assistance of the fire brigade held a car wash last Saturday (31th.July). The purpose...
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
AT 74, Don Attig is a lesson in life for us all. Here is a guy putting himself through a very gruelling physical challen...
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
A BOOK detailing the memories and experiences of people who attended the Dean Kelly Memorial School in Athlone is curren...
Wednesday, 18 August 2010
IT COULD be up, up and chocs away for an ambitious plan to develop a new 200 million Euro international airport on the W...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
UNFORTUNATELY shortage of space in our paper last week didn't allow us give adequate coverage, in terms of text or photo...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
THE WINNER of the Best dressed competition at the Kilbeggan Race Day was Marese Ward-Shine, a stylish lady from Athlone....
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
A SPECIAL meeting of the Ballinasloe Town Council is tentatively set for tonight (Tuesday) to discuss An Bord Pleanala's...
Wednesday, 11 August 2010
THE ATHLONE Institute of Technology (AIT) is to appoint a design team in the next fortnight as part of the 8m world-clas...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
MAYOR Sheila Buckley Byrne praised and thanked the people of Athlone, and the various agencies involved, for their contr...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
Athlone Community College students Michelle McHugh,Mark Roche,Sorcha McManus and Gavin Ward along with school Principal,...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
THE ATHLONE and West-midlands SPCA has hit out against the persons behind the abandoning of up to five young pups on ill...
Wednesday, 4 August 2010
THE DEPARTMENT of Education has announced the next step in making the long awaited construction of a new school building...
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 ...