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It was a heroic effort, but in the end Padraic Joyce’s Galway team succumbed to a late Kerry surge in the 2022 All-Ireland Football Championship final.

Right on cue, the drizzle started to fall as the final few moments of the Galway adventure came to a heartbreaking conclusion in Croke Park.

Proudly hosted by the Linenhall this week is The Visit, as Blanchardstown based theatre company Draoicht bring their touring play to Mayo on Thursday, June 2. Centered around Rose, played by Mary O’Driscoll, this masterpiece of new theatre writing is brought vividly to dramatic life by Ireland’s foremost playwright, Deirdre Kinahan.

You have to hand it to Fíbín sa Taibhdhearc for innovation. Their new production involves six short plays by six temporarily anonymous writers in six different intimate sections of the theatre.

Tubberclair achieved Under 15 Féile success on Saturday last emerging victorious in a closely contested Division 3 final played at Fr O’Growney Park, Rosemount.

The final chapter in the history of Shakespeare and Company, the famous Paris bookshop, began with the publication of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, in May 1939. The shop closed in December 1941 when a Nazi officer saw a copy of Joyce’s book in its window and asked to buy it. Sylvia Beach refused saying it was her only copy, and was not for sale. The officer threatened to return and confiscate her entire stock, and left. He returned the next day and demanded she sold him the book. Again Sylvia refused, and the officer, ‘trembling with rage’ warned that he would be back that afternoon and seize all her books.

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Galway United’s busy pre-season continues with another friendly against Shamrock Rovers at Fahy’s Field on Saturday (6pm).

Book Review by Mary O’Rourke

These were the memories of Christmas in the Claddagh long ago as recalled by Martin Geary of Father Griffin Road and published in this paper in 1979.