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Agus an colún seo á scríobh, tá Páras na Fraince agus Milano na hIodáile ina lasracha. I bhfad ón gclampar sin, airímse go bhfuil an t-ádh dearg ar mhuintir chathair na Gaillimhe go bhfuil an deis acub suaimhneas breá a aimsiú i lár an bhaile mhóir.

Had W. B. Yeats stood at the gates of Lissadell, 87 Upper Newcastle today, he might have recognised something familiar: an old house with a past, standing quietly and waiting for someone with the imagination to write its next chapter.

There was a feeling of a new dawn in the room on Saturday morning.

William Butler Yeats died in the Hotel Idéal Beauséjoue in Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in France on the January 28, 1939 aged 73. His wife Georgie and himself had often discussed his death, and he told her, “If I die, bury me up there at Roquebrune and in a year’s time when the newspapers have forgotten me, dig me up and plant me in Sligo.” His funeral was a discreet and private affair. His body was later exhumed and removed to the ossuary. Because of the outbreak of the war, it was not possible to bring his coffin back to Ireland for several years.

Galway United Women host Athlone Town in their first home game of the Avenir Sports All-Island Cup in Eamonn Deacy Park on Saturday (5pm).

The castle home of WB Yeats was the location for the launch of a major new poetry competition to mark the 100th anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Prize for Literature to the renowned Irish poet.

Tir na nOg Clinic is a family-run establishment specialising in hawir transplant surgery.

Pavillion are back in Róisín Dubh on Monday June 5 with highly anticipated concert 'Pavillion: Era 3'!

A thrilling new adaptation of James Joyce's, Penelope Chapter, “Yes! Reflections of Molly Bloom”, is set to come to the Town Hall Theatre on May 30.

Expect a real edge to Friday evening's crunch quarter-final clash between Irish opponents Ulster and Connacht.