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Finalists in the Best eCommerce and the Best Irish websites categories, Futa Fata, has scooped the award for Best Irish website at the Web Awards 2012.

In one of the strangest ironies of fate that I ever heard was the day, early 2006, when the renowned Irish singer Eleanor Shanley called into Charlie Lennon’s Cuan Recording Studios in Spiddal. Eleanor, with her distinctive, rich lyrical voice, was looking for a new song. She talked to her friend Éamonn Goggin, a sound engineer at Cuan. Éamonn’s passion was music. He loved nothing more than sharing his knowledge with friends. He enthused about a song written by Mike Scott of the Waterboys and Anthony Thistlethwaite, called ‘Strange Boat’. It was written some years ago, but it was a great song, that just needed some updating, a new look. ‘ We’re sailing on a Strange Boat/ Heading for a strange shore/ Carrying the strangest cargo / That was ever hauled aboard....’ Éamonn said it was ideally suited for Eleanor’s voice.

In his interesting biography of Eamon de Valera*, Diarmaid Ferriter reports that in December 2000 gardaí seized 24 love letters from de Valera to his young wife Sinéad, which were being advertised for auction by Mealy’s of Castlecomer. It was believed that the letters were stolen in the mid 1970s from the de Valera family home. The owners, who had bought them in England some years previously in an effort to ensure their return to Ireland, were unaware that they had been stolen.

Fancy being in a soap rather than just watching it? Have the cúpla focail and a burning ambition to act? Well, now’s your chance as Ros na Rún, one of Ireland’s most popular drama series, is now on the look out for talented gaeilgeoirs to join the cast for the upcoming 14th season.

Ros na Rún is on the lookout for actors with cúpla focail to join the cast for the upcoming 14th season of the hit show! So if you’re a Gaeilgeoir with big ambitions to star in one of Ireland’s most popular drama series, Ros na Rún want to hear from you! With dramatic and exciting storylines in the pipeline, the producers are looking for an actor to fill the role of a womanising character who causes uproar when he works his charm on the female population of Ros na Rún! Ros na Rún are also searching for actors to play a larger than life elderly couple and a variety of smaller roles is also on offer. Auditions will be held on the Ros na Rún set in Spiddal, Co Galway, and fluent Irish is essential for all roles. If you are interested in auditioning, simply e-mail your CV with a recent photo to [email protected] before Friday, April 17, 2009. Ros na Rún will then contact you to arrange an audition.