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Some of the cream of Midlands footballing talent were in action at Cushla Park, Monksland, when the inaugural ‘Athlone Fives’ tournament took place recently.

One recent evening Insider watched the 1967 Jean-Luc Godard film La Chinoise in which a small group of French students sit around their apartment, located in what is described as a “workers’ district”, and engage in theatrical discussions about how they must overthrow the bourgeoise and, in particular, the hierarchal French university system which saw students as passive receivers of knowledge handed down by their god-like professors, rather than participants in a dialectical exchange in which both students and teachers learn from each other and grow as a result. No one, with the exception of chairman Mao, is radical enough for most of these students. The French Communist Party which, to draw an Irish parallel, would have been more or less the political equivalent of present day Sinn Féin, is condemned as hopelessly “revisionist”. The Soviet Union, in particular its then president, the now largely forgotten Mr Kosygin, is convicted by the students at their kitchen table discussions of failing to do enough to support the Vietnamese in their war against Lyndon Johnson. And the French working class, with whom said kitchen table debaters absolutely sympathise, are seen as hopelessly passive. In a mix of desperation, madness, and idealism, the students decide to mount a campaign of terrorism, which will involve them doing something they have singularly failed to do for most of the film; getting up from that kitchen table and going outside. They plan to kill the visiting Soviet minister for culture who has been invited by President de Gaulle’s own culture minister, the novelist and decayed Stalinist intellectual Andre Malraux, to open a new wing of the university. After that, they hope to bomb the Sorbonne in the belief that this will spark a revolution. Insider is against blowing up universities. Partly because he knows such actions more often provoke backlash than revolution. But also because Insider happens to teach at a university and coming out in favour of blowing up universities might lead to an awkward email from one’s department head.

A prominent Athlone Institute of Technology based microbiologist has urged people to “think in fives” to protect themselves from coronavirus (COVID-19).

Fives for Lives was born in 2015 when a group of friends from Galway who had relocated to Sydney came together and decided to host a five-a-side football tournament in aid of suicide prevention.

Eighteen teams contested this year's Gort Ard Soccer Fives in Salthill, which has been held for the last nine years for primary school children.

Last week Claremorris Commnuity Radio held a graduation ceremony for its most recently completed media skills course. This particular course was open to anyone over the age of 55 and was funded by the Community Forum of Ireland, under the auspices of CRAOL, the Community Radio Forum.

One of Galway's great football festivals, the annual Salthill Devon National 5 A Sides, will kick off this year in Salthill Park on May 30 and 31.

Republic of Ireland soccer manager Giovanni Trapattoni launched the popular Carlsberg Salthill Devon National Fives annual tournament which takes place on June 2/3 in Salthill Park.

This year’s Carlsberg Fives takes place in Salthill Park on May 30 and 31 during the Volvo Ocean Race stopover.

Salthill Park, Saturday May 30 andSunday May 31