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The Lake District athletes had yet another busy weekend in Tullamore competing in the Juvenile All Irelands Day 1 and the Juvenile B All Irelands. Competing on Saturday last was Eoin Jennings, Ryan McCormack, Liam Lynch, David Marrey and Grace Jennings. Eoin Jennings and Ryan McCormack competed in the U15 Boys Javelin and both represented their club and gained invaluable experience on the national stage.

As a direct consequence of the death of three National Army soldiers during a botched raid on the barracks in Headford on Sunday April 8 1923, six anti-Treaty young men, already in Galway jail, were selected for immediate execution. They had been arrested during a raid on their training camp in the Currandulla area six weeks earlier.

By the end of January 1923 the Irish Free State had executed 34 anti-Treaty republican prisoners. To put this figure into context, the British authorities executed 24 Irish prisoners between November 1920 and June 1921 during the War of Independence. The fledgling Irish Free State was determined to put-down the rebellion by a small but deadly anti-Treaty force, led with fierce determination, by Liam Lynch.

After sporadic fighting in Galway during the summer of 1922, and the occupation of some buildings in the town, including the old RIC barracks in Eglington Street, and the former Connaught Ranger barracks at Renmore, the anti-Treaty forces withdrew into Connermara, and into the east Galway countryside.

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Clifden was not the only town to experience the terror of British forces running wild, shooting, and setting fire to buildings. The previous year, July 19 1920, Tuam suffered a similar experience as Clifden, only mercifully no resident was killed on that occasion.

Castlebar Celtic's hopes of making it to the Connacht Junior Cup Final were dashed by Ballinasloe Town last weekend in a re-fixed game that was abandoned the week before due to horrendous rain making the pitch unplayable, when Celtic were 2-0 up at half-time.

The Connacht Indoor Athletics Championships for seniors and masters were held at Athlone TUS arena on Saturday evening February 19.

There are just two Mayo sides left in the FAI Junior Cup as the competition reaches the last 32 stage this weekend, with Super League champions Ballyheane and Westport United both going for spots in the the last 16 of the competition.

AUGUST 22 2021 will mark the 99th anniversary of Béal na Bláth and the death of one of the most significant figures in modern Irish history - Michael Collins.