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• St Michael’s is holding an Easter Gaelic Football camp from Tuesday April 10 to Thursday April 12 in Westside from 10.30am to 1pm daily and is open to boys from ages eight to 13. Several members of the club's senior team will be coaching. The cost is €10. Download an application form from http://stmichaelsgaa.ie, or register from 10am at St Michael’s club house on April 10. For information, text/call Alan Glynn 087-275 1903.

“Get a mandate!” barked Labour party Rottweiler, Councillor Billy Cameron. This verbal was directed at Dette McLoughlin, the chair of Galway’s United Left Alliance. However as quick as you could say travel expenses, McLoughlin replied: “You have no mandate to implement a household tax, nor to rob the poor to help the rich. If you had any principles you would resign from the Labour Party!”

BICYCLES WITH Umbrellas, is a new professionally produced anthology showcasing poetry, fiction, and memoir by students who completed the MA in writing at NUI Galway in 2010.

St Luke’s Hospital in Kilkenny has not yet improved on its record for tackling the waiting list for colonoscopies following a litany of promises from hospital chiefs, HSE executives, and politicians.

A number of representatives from the Socialist Party were due to come to north Mayo yesterday to join in with Shell to Sea protesters at Shell’s tunnelling compound at Aghoos. The Socialist Party delegation was headed by Dublin MEP Paul Murphy, who took over the seat won by Joe Higgins at the last European elections following Higgins’ election to the Dáil in February. The group joined local protesters at the tunnelling compound yesterday (August 25).

The prolonged recession and lack of government support has been cited as the reasons for the closure of a city based car dealership.

DRAGON’S DEN sensation Santa Ponsa Or Bust comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week on Friday August 5 and Saturday 6 featuring the two funniest men in Cork: Frank Twomey and Pakie O’Callaghan.

The United Left Alliance, the new force in Irish left wing politics, is to launch a Galway branch at a special public meeting next week.

Joe Higgins, the outspoken Socialist Party TD, will be in Galway next week to address a public meeting on the EU/IMF bailout, unemployment, cuts, and the socialist alternative.

Twenty doubles teams from Galway, Loughrea and Ennis competed at this year’s Spring Doubles Tournament at the Galway Lawn Tennis Club.