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Brian Tallon is our newly appointed deputy sales manager for the Athlone and Mullingar Advertisers.

Despite Liam Mellows and his men answering the call to arms, and for five days to have caused mayhem in the Oranmore and Athenry areas, Galway was slow to realise that the Easter Rising 1916 was to be a permanent affair. The town was known as a ‘showneen town’, that is a town with a close allegiance to the British way of doing things. This was mainly because of the status of having a major army barracks on its doorstep. The army was an important purchaser of supplies from the town merchants; and many local people were soldiers, or had husbands or boyfriends who were in the army.

St Mary’s College was opened by Bishop O’Dea on August 25 1912. Its purpose was to serve the educational needs of Galway and of the diocese. Generous scholarships were provided to this end.

“Exceptional” and “significant” were some of the reactions of Mullingar’s school principals on Wednesday, when some 500 of their students discovered what their future was now most likely to hold.

After months of waiting, students in Mullingar finally got to see their hard work pay off last Wednesday, August 18, as they collected their Leaving Cert. Some 57,000 students received their results this week.

St Mary’s Church and graveyard are to be bought by the local authorities in Kilkenny from the Church of Ireland in what is seen to be an important move for the conservation of heritage in the Marble City.