Search Results for 'John Cunningham'

Maigh Cuilinn welcome recently promoted Sligo All Stars to the University of Galway Sports Arena this weekend for a rare 7pm Saturday evening tip off in the Basketball Ireland Men’s Superleague.

Maigh Cuilinn enter this weekend’s Basketball Ireland Superleague matchup in the rare position of being favourites away from home when they travel to Dublin to face St. Vincent’s of Glasnevin.

Last season’s Super League basketball champions Ballincollig await Maigh Cuilinn's visit on Saturday.

“We were led to believe that from St Patrick to the Book of Kells was this highpoint of Irish history; that after the Vikings and Normans invaded it was all shite and misery until Packie Bonner saved that goal at Italia ‘90. But there were a few good bits in-between, and even though our good bits were epic failures, comedy can be a great pathway to tackle these deadly serious topics.”

Reigning National Cup Champions and last season’s Superleague finalists Maree will be aiming for their first win of the season when they host Garvey’s Tralee Warriors at the Kingfisher Sports Centre in the University of Galway this Saturday at 6pm.

Week II

During the first 20 years of the 19th century Maria Edgeworth was the most successful and celebrated living novelist. With her friends Sir Culling Smith and his lady wife they had travelled from Edgeworthstown, Co Longford, to Galway, and from there they planned a leisurely holiday in Connemara.

Prior to 1961, public performance of Irish traditional music in Galway took place primarily in the form of céilís in large dancehalls — namely in the Hangar, the Commercial and the Astaire. These were enormously popular — remember the hundreds of bicycles parked outside the Hangar on a Sunday night — but they began to go out of fashion in the sixties and were regarded as old fashioned and backward.

It was a sort of homecoming for Galway-native writer Michelle McDonagh last week as she savoured the atmosphere of Cuirt the week in which her debut novel was launched in her native city.

Maigh Cuilinn retained their status in Basketball Ireland Men’s Superleague after they prevailed in a tense relegation play-off battle against UCD Marian in Dublin’s National Basketball Arena last weekend.