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After her Connemara tour Maria Edgeworth kept up a correspondence with the Martins. She followed their fortunes and misfortunes with all the attention of an enthralled novel-reader. There was plenty to hold her attention. In the spring of 1835 the Martins travelled to London where Mary was presented at court and moved in fashionable society, attending dinner parties and charity events, of which a cynical Lord Byron remarked that these galas were nothing less than a marriage market.

It’s been a year of ups and downs for Breaffy’s Tommy O’Reilly - the attacker started the season in flying form but injury mid championship interrupted his season, seeing him miss out on a couple of games.