Westmeath County Council has provided a new ride-on lawnmower for residents of Brawny, in Athlone, to help them maintain the green area alongside their homes.
On this day 70 years ago, June 1 1953, Scoil Íde opened for the first time. In 1952, the Sisters of Jesus and Mary purchased Allen’s Hotel on Dalysfort Road which had been run by John and Angela Allen. It had at one time been known as Daly’s Fort House, a high-class hotel run by a Mrs Galbraith. She sold it to a Mr Miller of Persse’s Distillers who used it as a private house and he sold it on to the Allens. Many will remember it as the place where Bruce Woodcock, the English Heavyweight champion, trained for his famous fight with Máirtín Thornton.
Leanne McDonagh discusses how a residency at Cork Printmakers in Ireland, as part of a project supporting artists who are refugees or displaced people, allowed her to document her Traveller community and reject the stereotypes created by outsiders