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Louisburgh, ready to rock

Louisburgh are just 60 minutes away from claiming their first provincial title as they take on Roscommon junior champions Creggs in the Connacht Junior Club Football Championship final deep in enemy territory this Sunday.

International prize for Mayo novelist

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Louisburgh author Mike McCormack has been celebrating on the double this week, with the news that his third novel Solar Bones, which is written as a single sentence novel, was this week picked as the winner of the Goldsmiths Prize for Fiction and with it the €10,000 prize money for the winner and has been shortlisted for Irish Book of the Year. The Goldsmiths Prize was established in 2013 to celebrate the qualities of creative daring associated with Goldsmiths University and to reward fiction that breaks the mould or opens up new possibilities for the novel form. The annual prize of £10,000 is awarded to a book that is deemed genuinely novel and which embodies the spirit of invention that characterises the genre at its best. McCormack was announced as the winner of this award on Wednesday.

Louisburgh ready to take on all comers

They have been playing football on the shores of Clew Bay in Louisburgh for well over 100 years, but in 1929 the club was officially formed and in the 87 years in between they have given their supporters some great days, winning an intermediate title in 2003 to go with junior titles 1950, 1987, and 1994 and most recently four weeks ago when they saw off Balla right at the death, thanks to a Kevin Gibbons belter of an effort when the game was moving into injury time.

Gibbons the hero as Louisburgh rally to claim Junior honours

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When Matthew Flanagan drove the ball over the Louisburgh bar five minutes from time from a free well out beyond the 45m line in MacHale Park on Sunday, it looked like the McDonnell cup would be making the short 11km journey out the road to Balla for the Winter. But Louisburgh hadn’t read that particular script and the seasiders dug deep from there on in and through injury time to rally and hit the final two points of the day to seal a historic win for John Kelly’s outfit.

O'Malley looking to bring Louisburgh back to the big time

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"Some people think I'm mad, facing the car for home on a Friday evening at 4.30pm, but during the summer where else would you rather be than at home in Louisburgh, as long as the weather is good of course." Austin O'Malley has been there and done it all before but he is still making the long trip home from his home on the east coast each weekend to try to help get Louisburgh back over the line in the junior ranks of Mayo football.

Louisburgh musician to compete for Seán Ó'Riada gold medal

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Louisburgh musician Jillian O’Malley will be among 15 flute and whistle players who will compete for the Seán Ó’Riada Gold Medal this evening, Friday February 5, in the Rochestown Park Hotel in Cork. The final will be broadcast live on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta. Tim McHugh from Newport won the Seán Ó’Riada Gold Medal the last time the competition was open to the flute, in 2012.

Soaring choral concert for Louisburgh

The Mayo Male Voice Choir is joining forces with mezzo soprano Annemarie Gibbons to perform a special concert in the Derrylahan, Louisburgh, tonight at 8.30 pm.

Mayor of Louisburgh raffle gives away two All-Ireland tickets

Pat Jordan, Feenoone, was the winner of two All-Ireland senior football final tickets on Saturday night at McNamara’s Bar, Louisburgh. This was the first in a series of fundraisers for the Mayor of Louisburgh campaign.

Louisburgh HQ invites the business community to market their businesses

The 125 small businesses operating in the Louisburgh are invited to register and meet with Louisburgh HQ as part of a business membership programme—the first meeting took place on May 20—with the next meeting taking place on May 27 in Louisburgh HQ, The Square, Louisburgh, at 8.30pm.

Companies across Connacht are invited to enter the annual ‘Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards’ which recognise business success, irrespective of business offering, size, sector or location. The awa

An innovative community-based initiative will be launched on Friday November 11 in the National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Turlough Park. The Community Archive Network launch will showcase the work of communities from Ballinrobe, Louisburgh/Killeen in Mayo and Oughterard, Co Galway.

 

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