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Kilkenny’s snooker star Davy Morris is about to set the TV screens alight with the new Sky coverage of snooker tournaments.

THERE IS A certain symmetry at work in the career of Teenage Fanclub. Their debut album A Catholic Education was released independently in 1990 and since then things have come full circle. Twenty years on from that debut comes the band’s 10th album, the wonderful Shadows, also released independently.

CELTIC FC fans refer to the team as The Bhoys and that nickname, with a little help from Celtic legend Billy McNeill, inspired the name of a Glasgow band who sing songs about the club.

THE CONNECTIONS between Ireland and Scotland run deep, deeper than is often realised. Many are aware there is a similarity between Irish and Scots Gaidhlig, our traditional musics, and the distilling of whiskey, but there is more to it than that.

Fresh from their second UK tour in the past 6 months and rolling out yet another crunching single are Kilkenny’s pop rock quartet Saving J.

MUSICIANS OFTEN say in advance of coming to your town to play a gig “Oh yes we’re really looking forward to playing there,” and no doubt it is a line they use to every journalist ahead of every town they play.

Sunday’s anticipated interprovincial clash with Munster at the Galway Sportsground (5.05pm) will have a huge impact on Connacht’s ambitions to close the gap on Ulster and claim a Heineken Cup place via the Magners League.

FOR IAN Rankin, the internally acclaimed and best selling Scottish crime novelist, the last 18 months have seen the closing of one chapter in his writing career and the opening of another.

FOR IAN Rankin, the internally acclaimed and best selling Scottish crime novelist, the last 18 months have seen the closing of one chapter in his writing career and the opening of another.

A family owned business, which celebrated its centenary last year, will open a new menswear store at the Eyre Square Centre today (Thursday).