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Following a recent call out for participants for the newest Local Live Performance Scheme (LLPPS) – part IIII, Westmeath Arts Office is delighted to report that Event Organisers have once again come to the fore to offer a wide range of artistic performances to the Westmeath audience this Autumn.

The European Super Soccer League was announced on Sunday April 19. It would be the Bees Knees, the Cat’s Pyjamas, the last word, and whatever you’re having yourself. But it was dead and buried by Wednesday April 21 thanks to the vocal fury of the English fans and even Boris helped save the day! And then the American owners started issuing apologies, pathetic. Relegation, yea, there’s an idea.

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The rugby community throughout Ireland has been saddened this week at the death of legendary Connacht player Ray McLoughlin.

The first team to represent Connacht in rugby played against Leinster on December 8 1885. At that time, the game in the west was played by just a few schools. In the city, it was really only UCG and the Grammar School who played with any regularity. By the beginning of the last century the Jes, the Bish, and St Mary’s were competing. The growth of the game was interrupted by World War I and by the War of Independence, but it improved a lot after the truce.