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Tina Claffey, photographic artist and resident of Birr, Co Offaly, launches her current exhibition in the Atrium space of the Áras and Chontae, Mullingar.

SERVE, a volunteering and international development organisation, is looking for more than 400 ‘flip-floppers’ to take part in a race in an attempt to create a new world record.

That fellow Napoleon has an awful lot to answer for. Not satisfied with conquering the whole of Europe he has left a legacy that divides us from the Continent and indeed from most of the world.

That fellow Napoleon has an awful lot to answer for. Not satisfied with conquering the whole of Europe he has left a legacy that divides us from the Continent and indeed from most of the world.

This November and December, the Oxfam Kilkenny shop is urging locals to choose their Christmas presents from its alternative gifts catalogue Unwrapped.

Maybe it’s because we’re so conscious now of the dark days of winter to come, or maybe it’s the intensity of the light at this time of year, but to me autumn always seems the most colourful season. There’s an intensity in the air, colours are more concentrated, the sunlight lower and more searching, and the scarcity of flowering plants make the flowers that are still around that much more welcome. It’s almost a last hurrah, a final act of defiance before the misty, dank, dripping days of November, the long nights and short days of December and the cold and gloom of January.

THE ARCTIC Monkeys will release their new single, ‘Crying Lightning’, through Oxfam Ireland’s shops in Cork, Ennis, Dublin, and Galway.

This November and December, Oxfam Ireland is urging the people of Westmeath to choose their Christmas presents from its alternative gifts catalogue, Unwrapped.