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The ladies of Athlone are set to make with their mark Athlone Little Theatre’s latest production of the smash hit poignant comedy Calendar Girls.

Towards the end of the 19th century, tourism interests in Galway used to advertise the Promenade as a place unrivalled in the country, where one could take the healthy invigorating salt air like nowhere else. In those times, it was just a narrow crooked roadway, very rough and untarred, and the footpath seemed to extend from Palmer’s Rock to roughly opposite the entrance to Rockbarton, if one is to judge from how it finishes in the foreground of our photograph, which was taken c1890. The road was known as the Lower Sea Road. The houses in the background are Belmore, owned by McDonoughs; Brinkwater, owned by Maurice De Courcey Dodd; and Maretimo, owned by the O’Beirne family.

The 43rd Claremorris Drama Festival will take place from March 8 to 18, 2013, with An Taoiseach Enda Kenny performing the official opening on Friday, March 8. Tickets for each show are prices at €13 for adults, €9 for OAPs and students, €5 for children and a limited number of season tickets are available for €75.

A VISIT to a favourite professor by a former student turns into a weekly pilgrimage and a last class in the meaning of life.

NATHAN DETROIT has a problem. He needs money. He has a floating crap game, where players make wagers on the outcome on rolling dice. The game is illegal and only one venue in New York will hold it.

On St Patrick’s Day a charity gig like no other will take place in the Royal Theatre in aid of Rock Rose House and the Irish Cancer Society. Mayo’s Magnificent Seven presents The Full Monty with the aim of raising some money, some eyebrows, and some temperatures.

Banish those January blues and come along to the Dean Crowe Theatre, Athlone on Tuesday January 29 at 8pm , where Athlone Film Club will screen the compelling, high octane Argentinian thriller, Carancho (2010).

Next up for cinephiles in Westport is the French comedy The Intouchables, which as gone on to become the country’s second biggest box office hit of all time. The multi-award winning film on the festival circuit tells the story of Philippe, a gloomy multimillionaire who has been paralysed from the neck down and Driss, his new Senegalese assistant from the downtrodden banlieues.

SCIENCE-FICTION film Born In Flames, made in 1983 by the American director Lizzie Borden, will be screened in the Galway Arts Centre this Saturday at 2pm.

Athlone audiences are in a for a treat when Athlone Film Club presents the poignant and charming French comedy, Delicacy on Tuesday January 15 at 8pm in the Dean Crowe Theatre.