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Sol Rio celebrates

THE FOLLOWING e-mail was received about seven years ago:

Ballinasloe Booksuckin’ Book Club is hosting its inaugural Literary and Heritage Day on Saturday November 19. It is a great opportunity for young and not-so-young to investigate the art of story writing and to embrace the heritage of the local community. Whether it’s autobiographies or fiction, there is a story to be told within everyone.

JOYCE CAROL Oates, one of the most distinguished American novelists of the last 50 years will be reading at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature on Saturday April 24.

It has been the year of Padraig Harrington, Munster triumphant, three Irish boxing medals in Beijing and Kilkenny and Kerry keeping the Liam McCarthy and Sam Maguire Cups firmly in their grip. It’s also the year when Man United reclaimed the Champions League; Usain Bolt and Michael Phelps created an Olympics to remember; and Tiger Woods broke through the pain barrier to win the US Open. All of this and so much more are recalled in The Setanta Sports Yearbook 2008–2009.

I recently came across this book and at first thought not another one of these authors who promise to help with life changing feelings and the usual preaching. Not that I’m a sceptic, I have always been open to different methods of healing and the meaning of life. However, up until now I have never actually found the perfect book in this area. That was until I read Life Lessons.

The picture-perfect O’Neill family is both admired and envied, near and far. But in the week leading up to Andrea O'Neill's high-profile society wedding, life-changing trouble is suddenly brewing and sinister cracks begin to show in the previously solid foundations of the O’Neill household.