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Fianna Fail in government was corrupt. Previous findings against former Taoiseach Charles Haughey have now also been applied to other party members, specifically our own Castlebar native and ex-government minister and EU commissioner, Padraig Flynn, while ex-taoiseach Bertie Ahern has been found to have been “untruthful” relating to his financial affairs.

2012 IS the bicentenary of Charles Dickens’s birth and the Galway Musical Society is marking the occasion with the Irish premiere of the irresistible, award-winning Broadway musical of his classic novel A Tale of Two Cities.

Myriad iconic attractions around the world are to ‘go green’ this year to mark St Patrick’s Day and to kick off Tourism Ireland’s major first half promotional drive to develop overseas tourism.

Mayo and Manchester have joined forces to promote tourism in the west of Ireland. The marketing team behind Mayo County Council’s diaspora website: www.mayo.ie have joined forces with Lawrence Hennigan from the Manchester Mayo Tourism and Business group, and the marketing manager of www.manchesteririshfestival.co.uk. Hennigan, whose parents come from Attymass parish, just outside Ballina, said: “We are staging a Manchester-Mayo weekend to officially launch our group at the festival, and a whole series of Mayo events will be taking place to promote all things Mayo in Manchester.”

Surprise, surprise, we didn’t win Eurovision again. The only one who seemed to think we had a chance was Marty Whelan, who kept blabbering on about how unfair the whole thing was to our little country, battling against the odds out on the edge of Europe. Let’s face it, Enda McEvoy has a better chance of getting a free weekend pass from the Cats Laugh Festival organisers than Niamh Kavanagh had of winning the competition.

Is all the snow, ice and rain getting the better of you? If so, check out the holiday fair at MacDonagh Junction on Sunday January 31, from 12 noon to 5.30pm. There will be a variety of exhibitors waiting to enlighten people on the holiday that suits them.

Scotlands most popular singer-songwriter Isla Grant makes a welcome return visit to Ireland for the now traditional annual tour.

“It has been all go, madness really.” Welcome to the life and times of Kenny Egan. Silver medalist at the Beijing Olympics, a laudable spell as the Irish Boxing team captain, but finding the correct balance since the summer has been tricky.

Jack L is now one of Ireland’s best known and best loved performers and he will be appearing at the Royal Castlebar Theatre and Event Centre on Thursday December 4.Jack Lukeman is, in his own words, “an independent singer/ songwriter/ entertainer/ mc/ bad dancer/ storyteller/ transcendental intergalactic mind- travelling bard from the Emerald Isle and I am slowly but surely invading the rest of the known galaxy with word and song. “Jack’s music ranges from the intimate to the epic and he tries to cover all music landscapes with his wonderful voice leading the charge.

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