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The Seychelles adoption of the school book Cracking Maths is certainly a tribute to the authors of the programme who include Joan Gilligan, Majella O’Connor, and Carmel Kelly of Brideswell National School, Athlone.

When I was growing up, there was huge fear, fear of 'The Big C'. Cancer would drive my mother to bless herself. She couldn't say the word.”

ACCORDING TO the history books we had in school in the early sixties, The Battle of Clontarf was described in terms of a religious victory in which the great Catholic Irish hero Brian Boru annihilated the pagan Vikings and threw them out of Ireland.

Scottish poets and musicians will follow in the steps of Raftery in the next few weeks as they plot a path to Mayo as part of the 2013 Turas na bhFilí poetry exchange programme.

THE GALWAY Baroque Singers and the ConTempo Quartet will perform Haydn’s The Seven Last Words of Christ in the Augustinian Church, Middle Street.

Despite an initial order of 10,000 copies, Gill & Macmillan publishers have already had to order a second print-run of Mary O’Rourke’s memoir Just Mary. It has topped the hardback bestseller list since it was launched by former president Mary McAleese just over three weeks ago. Another 10,000 copies of the book will arrive in the Gill & Macmillan warehouse this week as the book’s runaway success sees it outselling Fifty Shades of Grey author EL James and Cheryl Cole, who has also just published her memoir.

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Former Minister and TD, Mary O’Rourke is hoping to use the launch of her memoir on Sunday to provide “a bit of a party for Athlone”.

Former Minister and TD, Mary O’Rourke is hoping to use the launch of her memoir on Sunday to provide “a bit of a party for Athlone”.

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