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The HSE West has urged people to observe simple safety tips to help them stay well and have an enjoyable New Year’s

Rockfall fans can expect yet another weekend of great music with the annual musical extravaganza getting underway from this evening and continuing until bank holiday Monday.

The Run Kilkenny For Susie Long marathon event which took place over the June bank holiday this year raised a total of €13,441 for the Susie Long Hospice Fund.

With appearances scheduled for BBC2’s Antiques Roadshow and the Golf Channel in the US this autumn, and a budget deficit almost half of what it was in 2010, the future of Belvedere House and Gardens is beginning to look a lot more secure.

Disco Nouveau will be celebrating the bank holiday weekend with a dance party hosted by resident DJs Gamadon and Jay Carroll (Jayfe Lix) in The Stables, Mullingar. There will be no admission fee on the night to celebrate The Stables’ new management team headed-up by Declan Murray, and also to commemorate the legendary Tommy MacManus, who has accomodated the Disco Nouveau dance nights since their inception in January 2008.

“I’ll be supporting London, which will be strange because normally I’d be backing Mayo.” London GAA PRO Yvonne Morley is steeped in the tradition of Mayo GAA, despite being born and raised in Toronto, Canada. Her parents John and Kathleen Morley are from Knock and Claremorris respectively and will be making the trip to Ruislip on Sunday to support the green and red, while Yvonne will be squarely behind the exiles’ charge to knock Mayo out of the Connacht Championship. “They’re making the trip to the game, my dad is a football fanatic and was massively involved in the GAA in Toronto and we used to make the trip to New York for the game over there when Mayo came over, but I’ll have to be supporting London this time around.”

It has been a glorious two weeks for the lucky schoolchildren who are enjoying their Easter holidays.

The Castlebar Blues and Beyond Festival takes place once again this coming June bank holiday weekend. This annual festival marks the real beginning of summer and everyone is invited.

Roscommon Mini Marathon

Following on from a year of high drama in the ladies football world in Mayo, the Ladies Gaelic Football Association issued their report in situation this week and issued a number of conclusions and recommendations. Included in the report’s conclusions was the issue of the inability of the county to hold on to a senior team manager over a prolonged period of time. The report stated that, “A number of reasons were put forward for the failure to hold on to managers over the years but the majority by far felt that the problem lay with a few of the more senior players who constantly tried to exercise control over the team. It was said that this should have been tackled some years ago, when one manager left, but it was let carry on and managers preferred to leave rather than rock the boat.” While the report does hit out at some senior players, they also lay some of the blame at the footsteps of the county board saying, “This situation was exasperated by the poor procedures adopted by the county board in the appointment of managers.”