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Last weekend in Athenry, St Thomas’ hurling club had one of the best days in its short history when overcoming Loughrea by 0-14 to 0-11 to collect the Western Postform u-21A county hurling title.

Business owner Malcolm Cooney has been operating the Mayo branch of The Ultimate Floor Sanding Company for many years. Hundreds of happy customers with beautifully renovated wooden floors can be found across the county as a result.

The main business of the weekend was the Irish Junior 40x20 Nationals held at Cavan and Monaghan venues. Lorraine Havern of Down beat second seed Shauna Hilley from Wicklow in impressive fashion in a surprisingly one-sided final. Both Stephen Cooney and Ian McLoughlin were contenders in the top boys’ event the 19 and under singles. McLoughlin was an early casualty as he was well beaten by Patrick Funchion from Kilkenny, however Cooney, the number two seed, had a great tournament. He accounted for Cian Connolly of Roscommon, 216, 21-9 in his opening match and then he beat all-Ireland minor singles finalist, Padraig O’Carroll of Limerick 21-13, 21-13 to reach the decider against the number one seed, Caolan Daly of Tyrone.

The Start Up Live roadshow came to Athlone this week. Held in the Olive Grove Restaurant, the evening brought together 100 local business people who debated at length the challenges facing their business from selling to hiring great staff to competing for finance. The free event was held by Ulster Bank, in association with smallbusinesscan.com, to help people who have recently set up or are considering starting up their own business.

REDMOND O’TOOLE, possibly the leading young Irish classical guitarist of today, is returning to Galway to play St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church on Tuesday at 8pm.