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Unislim classes will take place in Hineys, Crossmolina, on Thursdays from 8.30pm to 9.30pm and in the Courthouse Hotel, Ballina, on Thursdays from 12pm to 2pm and from 6pm to 7.30pm.

Ever since the day he mesmerised the audience at his local school concert singing Don McLean’s “American Pie”, Marc Roberts was destined for stardom. Now, the Crossmolina native is set to join Ragús as Mayo’s top trad group return to the Royal Theatre to celebrate their tenth anniversary in style with their final show on a whirlwind world tour. Marc Roberts was bitten by the showbiz bug after being chosen to represent Ireland on the international stage, singing in the Eurovision Song Contest before 300 million TV viewers at the Point Theatre in 1997.

The communities of Ballyhaunis and Crossmolina have been congratulated for their recent success in the national 32-county Pride of Place awards.

Classes are held on Thursdays at the Courthouse Hotel, Ballina, from 12 noon to 2pm and 6pm to 7.30pm and also in Hiney’s Crossmolina from 8.30pm to 9.30pm.

Bridie Cawley from Crossmolina has been chosen as the Mayo Vintners’ Federation of Ireland (VFI) Good Neighbour of the Year 2008.

The great summer GAA championship extravaganza is about to get underway. It starts next Sunday and will continue for 20 weeks as the football and hurling campaigns endeavour to enthrall the sporting public. From provincial to qualifier to the All-Ireland series, it promises to be a feast of exciting action all over the country as teams battle it out for the ultimate prize of winning the Sam Maguire in September. Mayo has the distinction of kicking off this year’s campaign when they play New York in the first round of the championship. Whether they will be involved at the business end of the competition is anyone’s guess at this stage? Having witnessed last Saturday’s result in Croke Park, where the complete outsiders Leinster turned in an incredible performance to beat their much fancied rivals Munster, who’s to say that a Mayo team couldn’t do something similar in this years championship? As you know the five Connacht counties play New York on a rota basis.

I have fond memories of the summer of 1985. The Mayo football team was managed that year by Liam O’Neill. He was an excellent manager and coach, a driven man who really wanted nothing more than a Mayo team to express themselves in a meaningful way on the national stage. The former Galway player left no stone unturned in generating a self belief in the players in order to shake off a perceived mental weakness of the Mayo team back then. He was working with the nucleus of an All- Ireland winning under-21 team that had claimed the title in 1983. We were blessed at the time with a number of great footballers, players like Willie Joe Padden, TJ Kilgallon, Martin Carney, Eugene Lavin, Frank Noone, Jimmy Burke, and Jimmy Browne to name just a few, all talented footballers that in hindsight should probably have won lots more. We lost the Connacht final in the old Pearse Stadium in 1984. I remember big Tom Byrne scoring what appeared to be a perfectly legitimate goal in the dying minutes of that game that would surely have won us the final, but for some reason the goal was disallowed by the referee Mickey Kearins, he of Sligo fame.

The decision by Permanent TSB to close their agencies in Swinford, Ballyhaunis and Crossmolina is another body blow for small Mayo towns, said Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony.

The senior club championship kicks off this weekend and to be honest I am getting excited and a little nervous because of it. All the dreaming, planning, and orchestrating for a crack at winning the title will be put to its first big test on Sunday. The weather forecast is good and the fact that it is a long weekend should guarantee a bumper crowd at the games, which will surely bring a smile to the face of what is normally a very serious looking county treasurer! The real secret of the GAA's success is that it is so fervently supported at community level, and this weekend will see thousands turning out to support their respective clubs all over the county. You don't have to be interested in football — everyone goes to support their parish or their club. Gaelic is easy to watch. It is free flowing and robust with a lot of scores, and that's attractive for punters who are used to watching soccer where there is maybe one goal in the space of 90 minutes (Wednesday’s European cup final being an exception, when we could sit back and marvel at the flamboyant skills of Barcelona). There are very few things in life that create the excitement of a good club championship match and I personally love the build up to championship Sundays.

Mr Michael Kitt TD, Minister of State at the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, presented the winners of the National Tidy Towns Competition (west region) with their prizes on Monday afternoon and also commended five local Tidy Town heroes for their tireless endeavours in selflessly contributing to the public good in their communities.