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Ireland’s number one horse feed manufacturer, Connolly’s Red Mills, has announced that it is to sponsor the Thyestes Chase, one of Ireland’s premier National Huntraces. The Connolly’s Red Mills Thyestes Chase will take place in Gowran Park on Thursday, January 20, where Ireland’s top racehorses will compete for a €90,000 prize fund.

This evocative photograph of Phil Coyne’s Claddagh Bar was originally taken about 40 years ago. The shawled lady was Biddy (or ‘Bideen’) King from the Claddagh. The bar was situated on the corner of Raven Terrace, where McGuire’s shop is today. To the left of the pub was a sweet shop, which was owned by two sisters, Hanna and Sheila Gannon, one of whom wore mini-skirts long before they became fashionable. To the left of that again was John and Annie Connolly’s bar. They also kept lodgers, and one of those who stayed there was Edward McGuire who was a mechanic in Higgins’ Garage. His wife to be, Ethel Corbett, worked around the corner in George Gay’s furniture shop, and when they decided to get married, they bought Connolly’s and changed the name to McGuire’s Bar.