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Christmas Day is just a little over two weeks away and everywhere you look there are twinkling lights, beautifully decorated Christmas trees, people rushing through the streets with overflowing shopping bags, and there is every kind of gift imaginable in the shops.

A return to his home town and the official duty of unveiling a memorial plaque, commemorating the memory of those Great Hunger victims who died in the Athlone Union Workhouse, awaited Deputy Kevin ‘Boxer’ Moran on Saturday morning.