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The semi-finalists for the Windows and Rooflights Senior A Championship has been decided after an exciting weekend of Camogie.

As an island nation, we have been building houses by the water for thousands of years, between dramatic cliffs off our coasts, to tranquil lakes in the middle of the country and to the banks of the rivers all around us. ‘Tithe Cois Uisce’ is an 8-part series that follows on from the popular “Tithe Cois Farraige’ series. Each week Síle Nic Chonaonaigh will visit a different location to meet those who have built houses by the water. With a different theme in each episode, between big and small, old and new, ordinary and extraordinary.

“It was 1998. I just answered an admin job ad in the paper; I had no idea it was rugby…” so says Joan Breslin (née Moore) about her first foray into the world of rugby administration almost 25 years ago. After working in marketing for Clarinbridge Crystal and Dunlop Tyres in Galway, Joan’s career as a backroom ‘blazer’ with the IRFU and Six Nations tournament took off. Now she finds herself at the apex of the professional game as World Rugby’s project coordinator for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France.

As Ireland positively progresses in the Rugby World Cup, Athlone Community Radio is reflecting the occasion, with two signed and framed Robbie Henshaw Ireland jerseys the prizes on offer in their fundraising initiative.

Representatives from Athlone Gymnastics Club claimed medals at the recently hosted women’s artistic national all around and apparatus championships in the National Sports Arena Blanchardstown.

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Menlough based bakery, Butler's Home Bakery has been bringing the goodness of granny's bread to households across Galway since established in 2010.

It has to be the year of the Shark, that’s John ‘Shark’ Hanlon from County Carlow. He bought a horse called Hewick. He didn’t pay dearly for it (not even a thousand euro) and then won the Galway Plate last summer. He added another win at Sandown, and between the two he pocketed half a million euro. Not bad for a year’s work. But just last October he won the American Grand National at Fair Hills in New Jersey with a $160,000 dollar first prize. Now he is 33/1 to take the Cheltenham Gold Cup in March. D’ya think, maybe.

Representatives from Athlone Gymnastics club were proud participants in the recently hosted National Seres Gymnastics Team Championships which took place in the Sport Ireland National Indoor Arena in Dublin.