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After the horror show a few weeks ago in Croke Park between Dublin and Derry in the National League, opinion is again divided as regards the state of Gaelic football. That game finished 0-8 to 0-4 in Dublin’s favour with many describing it as the worst game of all time. It really upset Joe Brolly who apparently left the game early with his young son such was his disgust at what he was watching.

Staff and alumni of NUI Galway are getting behind a campaign to encourage people to consider donating bone marrow. The campaign is inspired by the story of Paul Giblin, an engineering graduate and champion rower for the University, who is battling Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

Friends of a local rowing champion who is awaiting a bone marrow transplant are spearheading a campaign to heighten awareness about the importance of becoming donors.

Fergal Fahey and his six-year-old daughter Hazel of Merlin Park, Galway, were dealt a shock last Wednesday afternoon when Hazel was injured after being knocked off her bike.

Athlone solicitor Gráinne O’Neill (42) has become the youngest judge in the State after her appointment to the District Court panel this week (April 16).

If anyone thought that academics sharing their enthusiasm for the landscape, writers and artists associated with Coole Park, Co Galway, would be boring and stuffy, they had a surprise last weekend. There were some jaw-dropping moments when Lady Augusta Gregory’s secret love affair was revealed; and when WB Yeats went off the rails in the years following her death, and had a series of love affairs.

Clients will feel immediately at home on entering the tranquil Ache Busters massage clinic in the quiet Caisleán Riada estate in Coosan. I was greeted on arrival by Gyongyi Karasz, who set up Ache Busters in June last year, and masssage therapist John Picard, with whom she teamed up as her business expanded.

“Over the past few years we, as a panel of players, have made the life choice to devote ourselves completely to hurling and the effort that has gone in has been huge.”

Talking to Portumna captain Leo Smith is like charging a mobile phone.

The Midlands Gateway Chamber is set to host the second in a series of breakfast briefings in association with the Mullingar Chamber of Commerce. The briefing takes place on 7 November in the Annebrook House Hotel from 7.45am. The speakers include Gabriel D’Arcy and Fred Barry.