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This Easter weekend is of pivotal importance in the young football careers of the U21s from both Westmeath and Roscommon. Both counties will contest their respective provincial finals at a time when football in each county is crying out for a lift. To win on Sunday would further enhance the growing reputation already being forged by quite a few representatives of each side and offer hope of better days to come at senior level in the future.

KEVIN HIGGINS and Susan Millar DuMars are, after John Arden and Margaretta D’Arcy, Galway’s premiere literary couple and this weekend will see a joint launch of their new poetry collections.

Roscommon 2-9

CLASSICAL MUSIC to thrill the ears and readings from poems and novels which will stir the imagination are set to be the order of the day at the Clifden Community Arts Week which begins tomorrow.

Galway poets Susan Millar DuMars and Kevin Higgins have been invited to read in Galway’s sister city of St Louis, Missouri.

Galway poets Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars will take part in a Greek-Irish Literary Symposium at the Melina Merkouri Theatre, Ilion, Athens, tomorrow.

Poetry and creative writing

THE 2009 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase takes place at Sheridan’s Wine Bar, 14-16 Church Yard Street, on Friday February 6 at 8pm.

Ballina Film Club’s Spring Programme commences this month with a screening of the Jean Cocteau classic Orphée, on Tuesday February 10 at 8pm. A poet, novelist, painter and playwright, as well as a filmmaker, the breadth of Cocteau’s talent finds full expression in Orphée, re-imagining of the classical Greek mythological story of Orpheus.

TWO DIFFERENT books, both from Salmon Poetry, will be launched in Sheridan’s Wine Bar, Church Yard Street, on Friday March 13 at 8pm.