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FROM GALWAY to Edinburgh, from London to New York - The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh has been taking audiences by storm.

One could almost say that the Duggan family of College Road were born to play the game of hurling. A number of their predecessors had played for a famous College Road team in the 1890s, and their uncle Paddy played for Galway. They were given their first hurleys by Eddie Moore O’Flaherty from the Claddagh when they were very young children, so it was no wonder that Sean and Paddy and Jimmy would play for Galway and that Monica would become a very famous camogie player. Paddy and Monica have gone to their reward, but happily Sean and Jimmy are still with us.

The death has taken place after a brief illness of legendary Irish dancing teacher Dot Redmond of Station Road, Castlebar.

The funeral of the young mother of four who died in a road crash near Collinstown on Tuesday is to take place this afternoon in Mullingar.

I have fond memories of the summer of 1985. The Mayo football team was managed that year by Liam O’Neill. He was an excellent manager and coach, a driven man who really wanted nothing more than a Mayo team to express themselves in a meaningful way on the national stage. The former Galway player left no stone unturned in generating a self belief in the players in order to shake off a perceived mental weakness of the Mayo team back then. He was working with the nucleus of an All- Ireland winning under-21 team that had claimed the title in 1983. We were blessed at the time with a number of great footballers, players like Willie Joe Padden, TJ Kilgallon, Martin Carney, Eugene Lavin, Frank Noone, Jimmy Burke, and Jimmy Browne to name just a few, all talented footballers that in hindsight should probably have won lots more. We lost the Connacht final in the old Pearse Stadium in 1984. I remember big Tom Byrne scoring what appeared to be a perfectly legitimate goal in the dying minutes of that game that would surely have won us the final, but for some reason the goal was disallowed by the referee Mickey Kearins, he of Sligo fame.

GAA presentations

The curtain will soon rise on the first ever stage adaptation of the book that Spike Milligan once vowed would be his ‘first and last novel’, as ‘this damn book nearly drove me mad!’. Big Telly performs an adaptation of Spike Milligan’s Puckoon at Roscommon Arts Centre on Tuesday February 3.

The curtain will soon rise on the first ever stage adaptation of the book that Spike Milligan once vowed would be his ‘first and last novel’, as ‘this damn book nearly drove me mad!’. Big Telly performs an adaptation of Spike Milligan’s Puckoon at Roscommon Arts Centre on Tuesday February 3.

The curtain will soon rise on the first ever stage adaptation of the book that Spike Milligan once vowed would be his ‘first and last novel’, as ‘this damn book nearly drove me mad!’. Big Telly performs an adaptation of Spike Milligan’s Puckoon at Roscommon Arts Centre on Tuesday February 3.

With yet another award announced earlier this month, Ann Downey General manager and her team at the Connemara Coast Hotel have even more to celebrate right now. Following on their inclusion in the prestigious 2009 Bridgestone 100 Best places to stay in Ireland and their Failte Ireland ‘Best practice/Optimus award’ coupled with the Green Energy Award they received in January, CIE tours have just announced the hotel has won an Award of Excellence from them.