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Compantas Lir’s Night of Comedy selling fast

The traditional magic of Compantas Lir’s autumn theatre Night of Comedy will be repeated next week when they are back on stage for the first time in three years.

The Sacre Coeur Hotel, the early years

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My earliest memory of Jim was of him building his house near us in Salthill. He had a small corrugated iron shed he lived in while working there. We local working men, all of us about six or seven years old, decided he needed a hand, so we went to “help” him, moving sand and mixing cement, etc. We were obviously a complete distraction and a nuisance but he was a gentle man. He would sit us down beside his shed, give us a slice of bread and jam, and then frighten the life out of us telling us ghost stories. A very nice way of getting rid of us at the same time as vastly improving the efficiency level of the amount of work being done on site.

Award-Winning 'Remember to Breathe' play At The Linenhall

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The critically acclaimed and award-winning play Remember to Breathe comes to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Monday February 18 at 8pm.

Little miracles in Rwanda

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In August 1994, as soon as it was considered safe, Dr Dom Colbert, and a medical team of four sister-nurses, Brenda, Fionnuala, Dorothea and Eileen, drove across the Ugandian border into Rwanda. They had no mandate from anyone or any organisation to be there.They were motivated by a deep sense of shame and anger that such an appalling holocaust could have happened.* They had their medical skills, a little money, and an old clapped out pick-up truck.

'Life is a series of aftershocks'

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WINNER OF a ‘Lustrum’ Award at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Orla Murphy’s acclaimed play, Remember To Breathe, comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week in a staging by Murphy’s own Figure 8 Productions.

Dive into exceptional new theatre at Roscommon Arts Centre

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Fresh from winning the ‘Lustrum’ award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2016, a nominated Fishamble Best New Play at the Tiger Dublin Fringe 2015, and BBC International Playwriting award, Orla Murphy’s Remember to Breathe comes to Roscommon Arts Centre on Wednesday, September 28 at 8pm.

Retired priest dies in Achill accident

A retired Church of England priest lost his life in Achill last Sunday night after his car was caught in a flash flood on the island. Rev Dr Roger Grainger (81) was driving towards his home in Dugort when his car was hit by a flash flood at 10pm on Sunday night. Despite efforts by locals to save the former priest and actor, who had made appearances in a number of television shows, they were unable to save him after his car was swept into a drain, submerging it.

 

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