30 April 2009 Edition
Athlone Dinner Dance Major Success
The huge crowd was in attendance to welcome Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams and EU candidate for the North and West constituency Councillor Pádraig Mac Lochlainn.
Presentations were made to two local republicans, Mary Samuels and Barney Dempsey to honour their unstinting and lifelong support of the Republican Movement spanning nearly nine decades each.
Sinn Féin Athlone Councillor Paul Hogan welcomed everybody especially the Samuels and Dempsey families to ‘this milestone event in the social calendar’. He thanked all the local businesses that sponsored spot prizes for the raffle and who purchased advertisements in the brochure.