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Lisbon Lions legends John Fallon and Charlie Gallagher will be in Galway next week to attend a fundraising day organised by Celtic FC supporters to raise money to help severely disadvantaged children in the Philippines.

In the mid fifties, the corporation began to build the houses that make up what we now know as Old Mervue. Many young families moved to the area, and for the children, the open green areas in from Plunkett Avenue, and between Clarke and McDonagh avenues, became their playgrounds. They played all kinds of games here… Gaelic football, athletics, and especially soccer. It was on these green spaces that many well-known footballers first developed and honed their skills.

I am interested to see what kind of a review will take place by the Mayo County Board and I suppose equally fascinated as to who will have the responsibility for carrying out this review. If it was done properly, I believe it would highlight significant shortcomings in our GAA structures locally. If addressed professionally it could present a great opportunity to highlight a number of issues that need to be changed, and if changes were implemented then the review would have served its purpose and be a good thing. We surely now realise that we are breeding players who are not delivering on the big stage. We are producing players that continuously look for excuses and opportunities to apportion blame on others. Of course players are not blameless, but we must look at the system that is producing our inter-county footballers. The review should scrutinise the performance of our county board officers. Someone should take a close look at their roles and benchmark their performance since taking up office. After all players and management are benchmarked by their progress or lack of on the football field. It is as we know a result driven business. For these and other reasons I would suggest that an outside agency, ie, one removed from the local GAA scene should be tasked with conducting the review. However the summer season just does not seem like an appropriate time to conduct interviews and carry out an investigation into what is wrong with our current system. It should be carried out during the winter months, when people have a little more time to discuss issues. I am aware that at least six counties have conducted reviews in the last year, so the template is out there already. Incidentally one of those counties that initiated a review of its current practices of the preparation of its inter-county players was Cork, not a county where you would perceive there to be a problem. But that is an important point too; reviews should be ongoing and not just conducted when there is a problem.

KPMG’s Galway office celebrates 30 years in business in the West of Ireland this year. In celebrating the firm’s success in the region, KPMG hosted a black tie gala dinner last month for its alumni in the Radisson Blu Hotel where more than 100 people gathered to mark the occasion. It also proved an ideal opportunity to acknowledge all the people who contributed to the firm’s success in the Galway region over the decades.

Chairman of Athlone Agri-Show, Michael Flanagan, has announced this year’s show will be a great family day’s entertainment. The show will take place on Sunday June 27 from 10am at the showgrounds, Gaffeys Farm, Moydrum, Athlone.

Kilkenny GAA Supporters Club reviewed a very successful year for both the club and county at its AGM held in Nowlan Park recently. The well-attended meeting included a number of members of the Kildare-based Supporters Club who travelled to attend the AGM.

One of the largest sponsorship agreements in the history of St Canice’s Kilkenny Credit Union was announced this week. For the next three years St Canice’s Kilkenny Credit Union, the largest community based credit union in Ireland, will be renewing its sponsorship of the GAA Senior County Championship, the winners of which in the past year have won the All-Ireland Club Championship.

The final of the Paddy Moran memorial cup is down for decision tonight, Friday April 16 in Pat Moran’s pub, Spencer Street Castlebar. The cup final is a key part of the darts season in Castlebar and is held in honour of one of the great men involved in the game in the town over the years. The semi final stages of the competition took place during the week with Rocky’s seeing off the Harp B 5-1. It will be a next door neighbour’s final with Coxes seeing off the Castle Inn 5-1 also on Tuesday night.

At the 49th Annual General Meeting of the Claremorris Chamber of Commerce, local based architect Eugene Waldron stepped up to the position of president, having served two years as vice-president. He succeeds James Kean whose term of office at the helm has come to an end.

The Fine Gael Spokesperson on Community, Equality and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Michael Ring, has welcomed the setting up of a Young Fine Gael branch in Achill. The launch was well attended and chaired by Deputy Michael Ring and also in attendance was Susie O’Connor, Fine Gael National Youth Officer.