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Athlone Little Theatre starts its run of the popular John Murphy play The Country Boy this Sunday. The play has been staged in various venues throughout the Midlands over the last couple of weeks and has received a rapturous reception. Standing ovations have been received in every venue.

On that terrible cold night of April 14 1912, in the North Atlantic, the Titanic was sinking head first into a freezing, calm sea. It had struck an iceberg 400 miles south of the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. And was fatally wounded. The incessant bip bip bip SOS call for help from the wireless telegraphist Jack Phillips and his assistant Harold Bride was interspersed with more dramatic calls for help: “We are putting passengers off in small boats. Women and children in boats, cannot last much longer”.

The Department of Foreign Affairs has confirmed that police in France are confident that a body discovered on a footpath in a French town is that of Kilkenny fugitive Robert Stapleton.

The Bealtaine Festival is the national festival celebrating creativity in older age and Ireland’s largest collaborative arts festival. Running from May 1-31 and co-ordinated by Age & Opportunity, the festival collaborates with local, regional, and national organisations to produce inspiring and innovative opportunities for older people to engage and participate in a whole range of arts events and experiences.

Easter Bingo at Drum

IT WAS once said of the Abbey Theatre Co that its actors were the best fed in Ireland due to the proliferation of plays which featured scenes of dining.

Sudden adult death syndrome claimed another vibrant victim last week in Carlow.