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Ireland’s oldest man, Martin McEvilly, is celebrating his 108th birthday tomorrow, marking another incredible milestone with his family.

The fertility journey is one that carries with it many lows and highs, bumps in the road, elation, frustration, devastation and thankfully for many families, joy.

“There is always a way to resist.”

The horrific Maamtrasna murders, the arrest of 10 men, the rush to ‘justice’, the evidence of the Cappanacrehas (known to be bitter enemies of the murdered Joyces), the two informers Anthony Philbin and Thomas Casey (whose false evidence led to penal servitude for life for five innocent men, and the execution of one innocent man), was followed in minute detail not only throughout Ireland, but in Britain and among the Irish communities in America. Yet nowhere did it impact more than on the mountainside community of Maamtrasna .

Roscommon Arts Centre and Roscommon Drama Group spent the summer months working on a project called 'Playing On The Radio' which brought members of the drama group together with well-known Roscommon actor, Enda Oates.

FOLLOWING RAVE reviews, awards, and being selected as Ireland’s official entry for the 2021 Oscars, Galway made film Arracht has now been optioned for a Hollywood remake.

The Dean Crowe Theatre would normally be a hive of stage talent activity at this time but for a second successive year the All-Ireland Drama Festival was cancelled due to the persistent presence of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Major General Henry Tudor arrived in Galway for the weekend on April 1 1921. On Saturday morning he inspected the RIC, then made his way to Lenaboy Castle to inspect the D Company Auxiliaries.

STEPHANIE KLAPP, MA Culture and Colonialism NUI Galway, history teacher, and local historian, recalls the story of a fellow German who made Galway his home, but found himself caught up in the 1916 Rising and wrongly humiliated on the streets of Galway.

Arracht, an Irish-language feature film which was made in Connemara, has been selected as Ireland’s entry for the Oscars’ Best International Feature Film category for 93rd annual Academy Awards.