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The Croi na hÉireann Festival will once again grace Athlone in 2024, the re-elected committee confirmed at the recently hosted AGM in The Bounty.

The Athlone Croi na hEireann Festival committee will host its AGM in The Bounty tonight (Thursday, September 21), at 8pm.

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Croí na hÉireann Festival chairperson, John Henson, has expressed his gratitude to all those who were in attendance at the festival launch in The Bounty recently.

The Athlone Croi na hÉireann festival committee will host an AGM in The Bounty Bar and Restaurant on Monday, November 28, at 8pm.

One of the reasons for the success of Mr Tuke’s Fund, which sponsored emigrants to America and Canada in the 1880s, was that as far as possible Tuke personally interviewed those wishing to go. He insisted that only families with at least one member capable of hard, physical work could participate. Proper clothes and money were provided to start their new life, and arrangements made in advance where they would stay and find work.

In the centre of Oranmore, stands a statue to a local man who was shot in Dublin one hundred years ago this week. Joe Howley, Officer Commanding Number One Brigade IRA Galway was killed leaving what is now Heuston Station, Dublin on December 4 1920, and was pronounced dead at 12.30 a.m. December 5 in George V Hospital Dublin.

THE OPENING verse of Geraldine Mills' new poetry collection, The Bone Road, reads: “They’re glad to see the back/of all the wind-crippled whins,/turn their heads from/the rain over Achill Island,/smoor the final fire.”

Fresh from his recent visit to Providence, Rhode Island, Town Mayor, Cllr. Frankie Keena, spoke of his positive interaction with influential members of the local community which will hopefully benefit Athlone in future times.