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Shane Lynam (Moate LEA) and Catrina O’Donohoe (Athlone LEA), will contest the local elections on Friday, June 7, for the Irish Freedom party.

The annual Galway Cartoon Festival takes place from tomorrow September 30 to October 9 2022. The French refer to cartooning as the ‘Ninth Art’. Drawings that are usually intended to be read as much as to be looked at, cartoons, caricatures and comics can be as important and influential a part of the overall popular culture as movies, music and theatre.

It seems laughable today but in 1958 Archbishop John Mc Quaid of Dublin, obsessively monitored Irish life to the extent, that he did not have to ban a film, book or play outright, it was sufficient for his secretary to make it known that the archbishop had wondered if that (name of film, book or movie) was the sort of thing a good Catholic should witness.

THERE ARE some great Irish films on Netflix which are well worth watching, but they do not always pop up on the services home page that often.

Postmasters have urged a full return to weekly collection of all social protection payments at post offices.

After an initial welcome to New York, where Mellows was feted as a hero of the Rising, it all went sour. Despite warnings from the influential Clan na Gael to tone his rhetoric down, Mellows continued his war against Britain. He was kicked out of Clan na Gael by its leaders, the veteran Fenian John Devoy, and the ambitious Judge Cohalan, when he publicly campaigned against Irish Americans joining the army, to fight with Britain and her allies on the battlefields of France at the climax of World War I. This totally opposed the efforts of Clan na Gael not to isolate itself from mainstream American politics.

Week III.