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AFTER FIVE hotly contested heats, the grand final of Show Me The Funny at The King's Head takes place on Monday February 24, with 11 of the freshest new comedic talents vying to win the top prize.

As one story in politics begins another one ends - on Wednesday newly elected Fine Gael TD Alan Dillon was busy getting used to his new role in his office in Castlebar, when a near neighbour from up the street and the person he was replacing, stuck his head in the door to offer some advice. Retaining the seat held by Enda Kenny in Castlebar was the aim for the Fine Gael party and Dillon delivered on that, taking the fourth and final seat in the county.

Living in Ireland during the mid 17th century was a frightening and a bloody time. Following the extreme political crisis that resulted in civil war in England, Ireland was plunged into a period of despair that would lead to the surrender of Galway, and the beginning of its gradual demise. The invasion by Oliver Cromwell’s New Model Army, a ruthless exterminating machine, in 1649, led by Cromwell himself, not only destroyed all military opposition, besieged and ransacked towns, and imposed harsh penal laws on Catholic survivors, but it changed the demographic of the cities and lands with the resettlement of faithful Cromwellian generals, and their families. And in a new twist: tens of thousands of Irish people were transported to plantations in the West Indies, and elsewhere.

THE LAST two places in the final of Show Me The Funny will be up for grabs in the fifth heat of the popular comedy competition takes place at The King's Head on Mon February 17.

THE PENULTIMATE heat of Show Me The Funny, Ireland's longest running and most wide reaching comedy competition, takes place this Monday [February 10] at The King's Head.

Showcase Ireland 2020 was held at the RDS, Dublin last week. This four-day trade show is the leading Gift Show in Ireland with more than 450 craft and designer exhibitors attracting over 5,000 domestic and overseas buyers. Two Galway designers Berina Kelly and Lynsey De Burca were presented with awards for their exceptional products.

I must begin this column by talking about the late Seamus Mallon who passed away over the last week.

PATRICK MCDONNELL, best known for his role as Eoin McLove on Father Ted and for his role in The Savage Eye, is the special guest at the third heat of Show Me The Funny.

There might not be a Las Vegas in the Hills of Donegal in reality, but Mayo at least left Ballybofey breaking even thanks to a late deflected James Durcan goal. The Castlebar Mitchels man knew he had to gamble it all on one play at the death and it paid off handsomely for Mayo when all was said and done.

HOWARD RATNER is a diamond dealer with an office in the New York diamond district. He is also a compulsive gambler and seemingly on the edge of a nervous breakdown.