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It's been some week for Noel Connelly, the former Mayo captain was appointed as the new joint manager of the Mayo senior football team alongside his old running mate Pat Holmes. While the whole appointment process and the wrongs and rights of it were played out in the public spotlight, Connelly also had to be preparing his Hollymount-Carramore team for Saturday afternoon's Egan Jewelers Intermediate Championship semi-final replay against Belmullet. Last weekends meeting between the sides wasn't anything to write home about as Belmullet played to their strengths and packed their defence and hit Hollymount-Carramore on the break and used the sharp-shooting of Jonathon Donoghue to keep themselves in the game.

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The proposed Connacht Golf Industry Conference which was slated to take place this coming Sunday, January 29 in Westport has been cancelled. In a press release this week, organiser of the event Paul O’Neill said that the interest in the event from the golfing public had not materialised and he had no choice but to cancel the event. He went on to say that he did still hope to see an umbrella marketing organisation set up for the 41 clubs in the province and would be getting in touch with them all individually in the coming weeks.

The annual South Westmeath Hospice 5km Fun Run/Walk saw over 320 people participate in a race at AIT last Sunday. In its third year, the event continues to be a successful fundraising event for the hospice in Athlone.

A Westmeath man has been charged with threatening to rape and kill the sister of Limerick gangland victim, Roy Collins.

Two local teenagers will remain in jail after their appeal against a 10 month sentence for their part in a feud-related assault on a neighbour’s home with stones and petrol bombs failed in the Circuit Court this week (December 9).

Johnny Glynn was only 46 when he died on January 10 1959, midway through his term as president of the Irish Rugby Football Union. He was a director of Glynn’s famous fancy goods and toy shop on William Street (where you could buy tickets for rugby internationals). He was educated at the Bish, played rugby for Galwegians and Connacht (12 caps), became a well known referee, served in various offices including president of his club, and dedicated himself to the advancement of the game of rugby in Connacht. He was a modest man who preferred to work away in the background and demanded only that there be no departure from the spirit of the game, no lapse from the fundamental decency of rugby football.