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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.

EU Commissioner, Carna native Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, is to be honoured by NUI Galway.

The fatal 2009 air crash in which two members of the Irish Air Corps lost their lives in north Connemara was mostly likely caused by the pilots becoming disorientated in deteriorating weather conditions, a report from the Department of Transport’s air accident investigation unit has found.

The State has issued an apology to the relatives of three victims who were killed by a landmine explosion in the Lebanon 22 years ago.

This photograph was originally taken in 1983 as the corporation was preparing to knock down the high wall that ran around St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church and replace it with the railings that had surrounded Eyre Square… one of the better Quincentennial projects that helped improve the face of Galway.

Tributes have been pouring in following the death on Wednesday this week of recently retired Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, and Roscommon native, Lieutenant General Dermot Earley.

Troops from Custume Barracks, Athlone and Columb Barracks. Mullingar are among over 400 troops preparing to be deployed to Chad.

As an Air Corps plane’s wreckage was being removed from a Connemara mountainside last night heartfelt prayers were being said for the two pilots who tragically lost their lives in a crash which has shocked a local community, family members, and the Defence Forces.