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Athlone student Shauna Loftus was one of just 14 teenagers from all over the island of Ireland to be conferred with a Rotary Youth Leadership award at the European Parliament’s offices in Dublin recently.

The final chapter in the history of Shakespeare and Company, the famous Paris bookshop, began with the publication of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, in May 1939. The shop closed in December 1941 when a Nazi officer saw a copy of Joyce’s book in its window and asked to buy it. Sylvia Beach refused saying it was her only copy, and was not for sale. The officer threatened to return and confiscate her entire stock, and left. He returned the next day and demanded she sold him the book. Again Sylvia refused, and the officer, ‘trembling with rage’ warned that he would be back that afternoon and seize all her books.

Moate native and Irish Water engineer, Emily Kavanagh, has always been passionate about her profession aiming to walk the path chosen by her father as she look towards her future career.

THE IRISH Student Drama Awards festival returns to Galway this year from March 28 to April 8. Hosted by NUIG Dramsoc, colleges from across Ireland will submit their very best theatre productions for this two week competition.

Poetry Ireland with the Global Brain Health Institute (Trinity College Dublin) and Creative Brain Week is inviting older people from Athlone and County Westmeath to write a line of poetry for a Poemathon with Older People.

TWO WOMEN, one of Congolese heritage, the other a member of the Igbo people of West Africa, have been appointed as artists in residence at the Galway Arts Centre.

The Irish Osteoporosis Society and International Pelvic Physiotherapy Management are jointly running a seminar for the general public on Osteoporosis and Pelvic Floor Muscle Dysfunction. The seminar will be held in the Ardilaun Hotel, Taylor’s Hill, Galway on Friday February 25 from 7-9pm.

There are lots of factors to consider when choosing your subjects for senior cycle so it’s extremely important to do your research and make informed decisions. Choosing subjects for Leaving Certificate is crucial to ensuring you achieve the best result you can in your Leaving Certificate.

One of the attractions for WB Yeats, when he was considering buying the old Norman tower at Ballylee, was that the surrounding countryside echoed with stories of Antoine Ó Raifteiraí (1799-1835), the blind minstrel, who frequented the south Galway area.

The New Year provides us with an opportunity to start afresh in a number of ways.