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Kilkenny’s snooker star Davy Morris is about to set the TV screens alight with the new Sky coverage of snooker tournaments.

A 16th century original Elizabethan painting of Black Tom, (Thomas the tenth Earl of Kilkenny) that was hanging in the reception room of Kilkenny Castle has been slashed in an act of vandalism.

Plans to double the size of Athlone got under way this week after Westmeath County Council agreed to publicise its project for an earmarked 302 hectares (750 acres) on the town’s eastern reaches.

Plans to double the size of Athlone got under way this week after Westmeath County Council agreed to publicise its project for an earmarked 302 hectares (750 acres) on the town’s eastern reaches.

ENGLISH SINGER-songwriter Charlie Winston is the brother of Tom Baxter, who is also a singer-songwriter. So why do they share different surnames?

Surprise, surprise, we didn’t win Eurovision again. The only one who seemed to think we had a chance was Marty Whelan, who kept blabbering on about how unfair the whole thing was to our little country, battling against the odds out on the edge of Europe. Let’s face it, Enda McEvoy has a better chance of getting a free weekend pass from the Cats Laugh Festival organisers than Niamh Kavanagh had of winning the competition.

I’ve a great auld grá for Tuam. It was there I cut my teeth in the manic world of wordmaking. A proud town, with great characters and great music and great poetry, it was forever getting a lash. If there was a lash to be had, Tuam would be first in line. It lost its sugar factory, its railway. Major industry was never comfortable there; its historic football stadium was allowed to rot while a shiny new one was built in an awkward location in the city, and politically, it was always an afterthought rather than a focal point.

Portumna band Big Generator and will be gracing Karma Club Athlone's stage on Sunday April 18. The four piece band consists of Paul Cantillon (vocals/bass guitar), Barry Conboy (lead guitar), Liam Martin (vocals/guitars/keyboards), and Robbie Casserly (vocals/drums).

As part of Music Network’s April classic tour, virtuoso guitarist Xuefei Yang and cellist Natalie Clein will be performing in the Áras Inis Gluaire centre in Belmullet on Thursday, April 29 at 8.30pm. Natalie Clein’s remarkable talent first came to the world’s attention when, aged 16, she won the BBC’s Young Musician of the Year award. Since then she has won a classical Brit award and performed with many of the world’s finest orchestras and chamber music ensembles.

Most Galway TDs own some property or land in Galway city or county, but unlike Fianna Fáil TD Frank Fahey, none of them owns property in France, Belgium, the USA, or Dubai.