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Over 30 local volunteers, club members and Ulster Bank staff lined-out in Ballyhaunis Rugby Club last weekend as part of Ulster Bank RugbyForce – a community initiative which provides rugby clubs with support to renovate their club and upgrade their facilities.

Next Sunday sees the annual Castlegannon Show taking place at Knockmoylan, half way between Ballyhale and Mullinavat. As in previous years, this great family day out is being held for the benefit of the Carlow Kilkenny Homecare Team, for whom the show has raised over €10,000 in the last two years alone.

Although a draft capital budget has been drawn up and presented to the members of Kilkenny County Council for the county’s capital expenditure for 2011 - 2013 the county manager Joe Crockett has warned, ‘we have to assume that a lot of this plan will not go ahead’.

Kilkenny Borough Council has agreed to convert a loan of €7.1m that it had previously made to the Watershed company, into a share capital investment in the Watershed company of equivalent amount.

The members were treated to stark reality at County Hall this week when financial controller John Dempsey spelt out the current financial situation for Kilkenny County Council for the year ahead.

Duiske Abbey, Graiguenamanagh, will be the venue for the Wexford Sinfonia’s summer concert on Sunday May 16 at 8pm. This awe-inspiring medieval building will be the perfect setting for the evening of baroque and early classical music, which will be performed by the orchestra. The conductor will be Fergus Sheil.

The lack of adequate broadband and a third level university is impeding investment by foreign and domestic companies in Kilkenny, according to members at this month’s meeting of Kilkenny County Council.

•Oughterard Golf Club: Pat McEvilly Captain’s Day, Niall Faherty (8) 168 nett, 1; Gerry O’Connor (14) 170 nett, 2; Gross, Cathal Jordan (5) 185 gross, 1; Michael O’Keane (6) (37.0B9), 2; Sean Coyne (17) 170.5, 3; James Geoghegan (15) 170.5, 4; Mike English (14) 172, 5; Ray Keleghan (12) 172, 6; Michael H Walsh (12) 172, 7; Sean O’Reilly (6) 173, 8; James O’Dea (20) 173; 9; Paddy O’Halloran (17) 173.5, 10; Past captain, Frank Kyne (22) 176;Veteran, Tom Naughton (24) 175; Committee, John Waters (17) 174.5; First qualifier, Liam O’Reilly (4) 67; 2nd qualifier, Billy O’Boyle (11) 66; Guests, John Deasey (20) 30, 1; Ritchie Lee (15) 27, 2; Larry Tighe (23) 27, 3; Ladies, Bridget Walsh (17) 28, 1; Carmel Morahan (36) 26, 2; Barbara Richardson (20) 23, 3.

Tennis

The Hardcourt Singles League, kindly sponsored once again for another year by Honda Motors Kilkenny, came to a satisfactory conclusion on Saturday evening. Thankfully we were spared the inclement conditions of the last few days, so that the finalists could give the excellent new courts a thorough test.