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On this day, October 23, 1928, Coláiste Éinde (St Enda’s College) opened in an old house belonging to the Blake family in Furbo. It had been founded by the State shortly after the State itself was founded. The aim of the college was to teach boys through the medium of Irish so that they could go on to third level at St Patrick’s Training College, get a secure job as an Irish language teacher and then, in turn, educate a new generation of boys as Gaeilge. The college did not last very long in Furbo as there was some kind of domestic dispute between members of the Blake family and the school had to be evacuated by Christmas 1930, so they moved it to Dublin, to Talbot House on Talbot Street.

Fresh from a host of appearances at festivals and events across the US, the award winning Byrne Brothers are back at Monroe’s Live on Saturday, October 18 at 10:30pm.

The Byrne Brothers, an award-winning family band from Donegal, will bring their energetic style of folk and trad music to Monroe’s Live on Saturday, April 19, with doors at 8pm.

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The country is getting back to the way things used to be, opening up and stretching its arms wide for the first time properly in almost two years - but the flicker of faces on computer screens is still the communication method of choice for a late Monday appointment for James Horan with the Mayo press corp.

When they look back on it Knockmore will feel they had the chances to win this game in Ballina, they hit 14 wides over the course of game to the two that their opponents did.

NINA ORAM, the author of the young adult fiction trilogy, The Carrowkeel Series, will be among the featured readers at next week's Over The Edge: Open Reading.

This one will sting in Knockmore - they only managed two points in the second half and had a two man advantage for a good six minutes of the last half hour and failed to make it count as a final quarter surge from Ballina Stephenites saw them take the win and top place in the group.