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It’s bad news for business once again this week with weather forecasters predicting another cold snap for the weekend and into next week.

From last April until now seems like the blink of an eye, but in that time a major brand new musical has been honed, cast, marketed and brought to the stage in the west of Ireland. Yes, the much-heralded dramatic musical in two acts, On a Wing and Prayer launched boldly into the public sphere for three nights last night Thursday, November 25 and will run until tomorrow Saturday November 27, at the Royal Theatre, Castlebar. And all in aid of a great cause, the Mayo Roscommon Hospice Foundation, and specifically for the Foundation’s Palliative Care Service.

Ireland was pipped for top position by Hungary in the medals table at the 6th European Transplant & Dialysis Games which finished in Dublin at the weekend.

Mayo and District Motorsport Club member Aaron MacHale finished in a strong third overall on the Safety First Galway International Rally at the weekend. The Ford Focus WRC driver overcame a puncture early in the event to overhaul the Mitsubishi of Alistair Fisher for the final podium position on the last stage.

The Pope’s children are 30. As 2009 dawns it will be 30 years since the Pope went around the Racecourse in Ballybrit and told the young people of Ireland that he loved them. But the young people at Ballybrit were not the Pope’s children. The young people of Ballybrit in 1979 are anything from 45 to 55 now. They were well able to cheer and clap and sing loudly in 1979. The Pope’s children are a different generation.

The Fureys and Davey Arthur celebrate their 30th anniversary this year with the release of a live DVD/ CD which was recorded in Vicar St, Dublin.

Having spent three nights in Strasbourg last week, I caught up with the three sitting MEPs for Ireland East and got an opportunity to have a look at their daily lives as MEPs.

It has been confirmed that Kilkenny Fine Gael Senator John Paul Phelan is to run in the European elections this June.

Joey O’Hanrahan’s County Council campaign in Thomastown was launched by Ireland East candidate for the European Parliament election, Senator John Paul Phelan

As the candidate list began to clarify itself, there were clear signs of political spring last Saturday as the ground forces arrived in the village. Not any old village of course, but rather the heart of St Patrick’s parish in the city. Out earliest was the Kerry Blue and co who were then rapidly followed in action by Compost Noonan, the child of Larchfield seeking to present himself as the one true holy and apostolic Green.