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Sssssh. Listen. Can you hear the patter of hundreds of tiny trotters as the piglets sprint away from the massive swill trough before the bold pig spills it over. Off they run lest they be splashed with any of the muck-spreading that has been caused by the bould pig Ivor. They’ve all known for a long time that the bould pig Ivor had been lashing up the swill with all four trotters, but sure, they let him carry on because they just didn’t want the farmer to come over and see what was going on at the trough. ‘Cos then he might look at them all, and see the muck on the trotters from the fumbling in the greasy swill.

As it approaches its second birthday next month, the Royal Theatre and Events Centre in Castlebar continues to grow its brand pulling in big names from both the national and international stage. Everything from Riverdance to Disney productions, opera, rock, and pop draw punters in their thousands every week with comedy shows proving a particular hit, notably in corporate entertainment where having a laugh with colleagues makes for a real ice-breaker.

IN THE summer of 1978 a young man from Drogheda named Niall O’Dowd had just graduated from UCD with a BA degree but in unemployment-ravaged Ireland he felt his prospects lay elsewhere.

I knew it! The chickens are coming home to roost and the part that golf played in creating the current mess is finally being revealed. What have bankers, developers, politicians got in common? They’re all, to the last man and woman, members of golf clubs.

Kilkenny’s Market Cross Shopping Centre are offering four lucky shoppers the chance to win one of four fabulous makeovers which in total are worth €10,000 in a new competition.

Nell Leahy explained to Donnacha O Dualing in one of her radio interviews that many marriages in the 1930s and 1940s were arranged. A date was set for the two to wed whether they liked it or not. Some matches proved successful, others disastrous.

The words of the song come to mind when contemplating Nell Leahy’s word pictures of a past that has virtually disappeared.

TÍR NA nÓg are experiencing something of a revival and for the first time in several years the duo of Sonny Condell and Leo O’Kelly join forces to play The Crane Bar, Sea Road, on Thursday September 18 at 9pm.

A very special art exhibition comes to Moate this month, with the launch of the ‘Best Moments’ exhibition next Friday October 10. Featuring the work of Monica Maxwell, the body of work reflects some of the artist’s passions and happiest childhood memories, as well as coinciding with the birth of her first child.

Were we not miserable enough? Must they kick you while you’re down? Do they really need to take that one last and most damaging punch as a precaution just in case you might rise up from the ashes?