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Week II

If there was ever a constituency which defined the term ‘boringly predictable’ it was certainly Galway East, a place even more beholden to repeating patterns and traditions than its sister electoral area Galway West.

Family and friends of a woman drowned while scattering her sister’s ashes in Connemara paid their final farewells at a service held in Dublin on Tuesday.

Galway East used to be the most boring of all constituencies, returning two Fianna Fáil and two Fine Gael, without fail, at every election, but things look set to be very different in 2011.

A Ballina man who claimed disability benefit while he worked on building sites, where he used a different name and PPS number, was before Ballina District Court this week.

A man who got into a disagreement with his brother-in-law in the early hours of the morning at what was described in the District Court on Friday (October 8) as a “funeral tea”, was given a month to make a donation to a local charity or face a much greater fine.

The Tory Party in Britain can count among its leaders Winston Churchill, Harold MacMillan, and Margaret Thatcher, and is now led by the Eton and Oxford educated David Cameron, who hails from Berkshire, a traditional Tory heartland.

The greatest challenge for the manager of any team is to ensure that your squad maximises its potential and hits the sweet spot on the biggest day. That might mean at some stage in a season recognising that the team’s best performance just wasn’t good enough, and as a manager you have to accept that too. But as any sports person recognises there is no better feeling in the world than the winning feeling experienced at the conclusion of a performance where everything has gone brilliantly to plan.

Uncle Sam’s restaurant and takeaway on High Street, Kilkenny is something of a landmark establishment in the city, catering to the crowds for over 28 years.

A Bekan man who gave a false name after he was detected driving using illegal diesel was fined a total of €5,000 in Ballyhaunis District Court this week.