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TURNING LEFT just after Drumcliffe Church in County Sligo, there is a long twisting road, wending its way to a rocky shore. At the end is a low lying bungalow.

Katelyn Molloy, a Leaving Cert student from Cregmore, Claregalway has qualified for the semi-final stages of the All-Ireland Music Competition where a recording contract and representation at TMI awaits the winning act. Seventeen year-old Katelyn, a cousin of pop star Una Healy of The Saturdays will be contesting for a place in the final at the West County Hotel, Ennis, Co Clare on January 4 where she will have to battle against 15 other competitors in the penultimate stages of the competition.

ine Gael Senator for Galway West Fidelma Healy Eames has welcomed the success of the first Chinese language and culture classes which took place in the Oranmore Lodge Hotel this week.

A poetry reading by Dermot Healy will take place in the Cyril Grey Hall, Dugort, Achill on July 28 at 8.30pm

The acclaimed writers English poet Simon Armitage and Irish novelist Dermot Healy will be giving writers masterclasses as part of Cúirt.

Greenfields Hockey Club easily accounted for Yeats County by 5-0 to win the Connacht Senior League and the Comer Cup for the third year in a row. The Galway champions will now represent the province in the Irish Hockey League wildcard play-offs in Dublin in May when they will compete against opposition from Leinster, Munster, and Ulster.

A local author is looking for people in the Midlands who believe thay may have had any communication with the dead for a sequel to her 2007 book Contacted.

Results from the men’s 18 hole Stan Fields Memorial Prize event are as follows: 1 Shay Kennedy 40 points bk3; 2 Martin Whelan 40 points; 3 Michael Conway 39 points bk9; 4 Adrian O’Neill 38 points; Gross Michael Buggy 37 gross; Student Prize Adrian Dillon 43 points.

THE PASSING of Leo Healy was widely and deeply mourned by trad musicians in Ireland and by Galway trad musicians in particular. Now many of them are coming together for a special tribute concert.

Results from the Turkey competition are as follows: 1 Mark Carey (11) 31 points; 2 Eamonn Breen (13) 30 points; 3 John Phelan (10) 29 points.