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Athlone Town’s impressive unbeaten SSE Airtricity League First Division run was ended by Wexford Youths at Lissywollen last Friday.

Athlone’s smashing start to the SSE Airtricity League First Division season continued at the UCD Bowl last Friday night.

With the commencement of the SSE Airtricity League First Division campaign drifting closer, Athlone Town continued their pre-season preparations when playing out a scoreless draw with Bohemians at Dalymount Park on Sunday afternoon.

This very fine painting ‘Listed for the Connaught Rangers, recruiting in Ireland 1878’, was painted by Elizabeth S Thompson, but following her marriage to Lieutenant General Sir William Butler of Bansha Castle, Co Tipperary, is best known as Lady Butler. It is not only extremely unusual for a woman artist to have so successfully worked in the highly masculine field of military art, but Lady Butler was an exception in many ways. She was an innovator, particularly in her sensitive and humane depiction of the ordinary soldier. Detail was all important. She was a regular visitor to Chelsea Hospital, and other retirement homes for soldiers, to question survivors, sometimes getting them to re-enact a particular scene.

The 18th Baboró International Arts Festival for Children is in full swing with four more days of great shows and exhibitions for you to enjoy, not to mention the spectacular Amococo at the Spanish Arch. Over the last few weeks we’ve been hearing from Baboró enthusiasts about why they’re proud to be Baboró Ambassadors. This week, we hear from James Harrison...

Connacht Rugby return to the Galway Sportsground on Saturday evening (7.15pm) hoping to repeat last season’s home victory over visitors Leinster in this RaboDirect Pro 12 interprovincial clash.

Students from the Midlands were celebrating this week after taking home a number of awards from the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2011 which took place at the RDS at the weekend.

From horse hair and hazelnuts to ballet and biofuels, Westmeath students have been busy investigating some of the more unusual scientific questions, and will learn of their success later this evening [Friday] as the winners of the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition are announced.

A FEAST of short films will be screened in The Eye Cinema’s Arthouse Screen tomorrow from 7pm as part of Galway Culture Night 2010.

The Galway senior camogie ladies edged out Cork by 0-10 to 0-9 in Sunday’s All Ireland Senior Camogie semi-final replay in Semple Stadium to shatter Cork’s dreams of winning a coveted three in-a-row.