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THE WORLD Cup is approaching so it means it must be time for the ever popular Aprés Match to make a welcome return to stage and screen.

DRUID, DINOSAUR JR, Après Match, Cúirt, Tom Murphy, Peter Green, and Mozart are among the many highlights in the Town Hall’s programme for the coming months, details of which have just been published.

Eileen Irwin from Ballina will fly the flag for County Mayo at the All Ireland grand final of the 2009 Granny of the Year Competition in aid of Special Olympics Ireland.

Mayo golfer to lead the challenge at 3 Irish Women’s Open Strokeplay

Michael Gillen was born in a house on a corner at Galway Docks in 1933. His family soon moved to Cooke’s Terrace in Bohermore, which he describes as “the best place I have ever lived in... you could not find a bad neighbour”. He had a “massive childhood”, much of it revolving around sport. Two of his great mentors were Tom Fleming and Martin King, both from Bohermore and both All-Ireland winners with the Galway hurling team in 1923. Michael’s dad grew vegetables and potatoes in ‘The Plots’ on the Headford Road, and his mother kept chickens in the back garden. Michael was always chasing them around, which is probably the reason why everyone called him Chick. This nickname stuck to him to the extent that one day, when a gang of his pals called to the door and said, “Is Michael in?” his mother had to think before she finally replied, “Do you mean Chick?”

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