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NIGHT TIME. A country road. Mark and Steve are training for the event of their lives. They find themselves running into their past and into their future.

FUAIM CHONAMARA continues its run at Monroe’s Live for just two more nights - tonight and Thursday September 2 at 8pm.

A well-known city publican was laid to rest this week.

The new chairman of the Kilkenny County Council was recently voted in at a special meeting of Kilkenny County Council.

The Special Olympics Gameshosted in Limerick last week have been hailed the best ever after four very successful days of sporting events.

In the early 1990s the Mayos in Galway were getting so uppity that it was decided that action would be taken. It is believed that Seamus Keating, the legendary Galway city and county manager, and a Tipperary man to boot, was never slow in taking the hard decision. Exasperated by the controls exerted by the Mayos, their prestigious positions in all walks of life in the city, their swagger about the place, and the whingeing by the few Galwegians left on his staff at the unfairness of it all, one day he pressed the red button on his desk.

You can bottle down most pop music acts by reciting how many hits they have had and how many millions of albums they have sold. These conventional measures fall short when you’re assessing the impact of The Beach Boys. To be sure, this band has birthed a torrent of hit singles and sold albums by the tens of millions, but the band’s greater significance lies in the fact that it changed the musical landscape so profoundly, that every pop act since has been in its debt.

I knew it! The chickens are coming home to roost and the part that golf played in creating the current mess is finally being revealed. What have bankers, developers, politicians got in common? They’re all, to the last man and woman, members of golf clubs.

The St Patrick’s Day 5K DASH organised by Kilkenny City Harriers and Kilkenny Fit4Life Club proved to be an enjoyable and very successful event with just over 250 taking to the road and a further 100 plus juveniles on the track. Mayor Malcolm Noonan started the run which commenced at The Watershed and followed a course along the Bennettsbridge Road, a circle of The Castle Park and back to The Watershed.

Where could you get a dinner of braised lamb shank with roast potatoes and peas, cooked by a chef who has worked with Paul Rankin of Gourmet Ireland fame, for €6.99? The answer is at the Spar Express shop in the Corrib Filling Station at the Hill in Loughrea. I called in there recently and decided to browse the deli counter. I was surprised to see a selection of main courses just removed from the oven. They had roast breast of turkey cut in very thick juicy slices, roast of beef, lamb shanks, and pork pieces in a barbecue sauce.