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Mayo’s football hopes excite Maria more than gay debate

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Rose of Tralee Maria Walsh, from Shrule, has welcomed the positive feedback and commentary in the media after she revealed she has been openly gay for the past two years.

Shrule’s Maria Walsh bloomed brightly in the Dome to win Rose of Tralee crown

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Life has taken a massive and unexpected - but hugely exciting - turn for Shrule’s Maria Walsh, after she was crowned the Rose of Tralee in the famous Dome on Tuesday night.

Comedy in Belmullet

Love Thy Neighbour is a three act comedy by Jimmy Keary, and performed by the Mullet Drama Group, over three nights in Áras Inis Gluaire.

Love Thy Neighbour in Belmullet

Love Thy Neighbour is a three act comedy by Jimmy Keary. Performed by the Mullet Drama Group, Love Thy Neighbour will be performed three nights here in Áras Inis Gluaire; Friday, April 20 and Saturday, April 21 and Friday, April 27. All shows 8pm.

Comedy hit Santa Ponsa Or Bust at Town Hall

DRAGON’S DEN sensation Santa Ponsa Or Bust comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week on Friday August 5 and Saturday 6 featuring the two funniest men in Cork: Frank Twomey and Pakie O’Callaghan.

Santa Ponsa or Bust!

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Santa Ponsa or Bust is the first part of the Santa Ponsa trilogy and it has captivated audiences wherever it has played. Starring Pakie O’Callaghan and Frank Twomey from the Joe Duffy Funny Friday shows this is one comedy show not to be missed. Santa Ponsa or Bust is the stage show that took the Dragons’ fiery breath away. For the first time ever in the Irish version of Dragons’ Den all five Dragons invested in what is already being talked about as the smash hit comedy of the year.

Kilkenny athlete takes part in Dublin road race

Athlete, Kate O’Neill joined Irish track legend and race director, Eamonn Coghlan recently to launch the 2011 Kleinwort Benson Investors St Patrick’s 5k Festival Road Race which takes place in Dublin on Sunday, March 20.

A Connemara family reunion

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Richard Martin jr decided to leave Ireland for Canada in 1833. The younger son of Colonel Richard ‘Humanity Dick’ Martin, MP, of Ballinahinch, he had expected to inherit some of the family property. However his older brother Thomas — already deeply in debt —broke the entail on the family estates in Connemara, leaving Richard with few prospects. Together with his wife, Emily Kirwan, and their six young children (a seventh would be born in 1834), he emigrated, settling at Grand River, Ontario. Richard died aged 80 in 1878, having lived long enough to see his family grow and prosper far more than would have been likely had they remained in Ireland.

Thousands expected at State funeral for slain Swinford garda

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Garda Robert McCallion, a 29-year-old native of Swinford who lost his battle for life at Beaumont Hospital Dublin on Tuesday, has been described as a “hero”.

Portrait of the writer as a young boy

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Girls can be cruel. In 1921 Walter Macken was six years old, and in middle babies at the Presentation Convent school. ‘Middle Babies’ had to be a challenge for any six year old boy (who already saw himself as a pilot ‘flying’ through the lanes around St Joseph’s Avenue where he lived). Today the Pres has a thriving national school, in Walter’s time it was predominatly a renowned ‘Girls’ school. It did offer places to boys to a very junior level (you started in infants, then middle babies, and then first class), before the boys moved off to ‘The Bish’ or ‘The Jes’, Mary’s, or Endas.

 

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