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Easter party for aware

Naomh Padraig Credit Union is encouraging local people to use the Easter break to sort out their household finances for the rest of the year, by planning for holidays, school expenses, home improvement and family events.

Athenry Golf Club: 13 holes singles stableford, Patrick McCarthy (25) 32, Martin Murphy (20) 31, Gross Martin Hynes (4) 27, Jimmy Murray (18) 30.

A women’s and men’s health information evening is being held on Wednesday November 16 at 7pm at the Newpark Hotel, Castlecomer Road, Kilkenny.

Bearna Golf Club: Captain Martin O'Neill's Prize, Einne Curran (16) 57; John Darby (15) 57; Gross Colm Feeney (0) 51; Neil McNeill (8) 54; John Collins (12) 53; Gerry Walsh (14) 51; 2nd gross John Hyland (9) 34; Sean O'Grady (13) 50; Past capt, Richard Hughes (11) 48; Senior, Vincent Ginty (22) 44; Stag, Dominic Burke (20) 29; Front 9, Joseph Daly (16) 20; Back 9, Tommy Flynn (10) 20; Pin, Mark O'Leary; Drive, Fergal Manning; Visitor, Michael Walsh (13) 31.

For long periods the outcome was in doubt, but in the end Kilkenny turned on the style as they crucified the Tipperary challenge.

As the three Kilkenny Special Olympics athletes left for Athens in high spirits, there can be no doubting the impact that their success thus far has had on others.

The participants in the Galway Rising of April 1916 anticipated their arrest and humiliation. During Easter Week, while the rebels were attacking police stations in parts of east Galway, and threatening an invasion of the town, the RIC was quick to round up all the usual suspects. They were easily recognised. Their public training, and their interruptions of recruitment meetings made them well known to the police. They were loaded into open-top vehicles and paraded ‘for the entertainment of the townsfolk’. Volunteer Frank Hardiman remembered being set upon and beaten by rowdies at a number of places, and pelted with mud by the town’s inhabitants.

Last Saturday night saw The Langtons Winter Team League come to a satisfactory conclusion. Bernie Halpin and Jane Gilman led the two teams participating respectively. Every game won by either team proved to be of paramount importance in deciding the issue.

Hats were raised in celebration as Mary Ryan from Knockranny House Hotel, Westport was announced the winner of the Euro-toques Young Chef Competition 2010 at a special ceremony in Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud in Dublin this week. Winner Mary Ryan and fellow finalists, showcased their talents by each cooking one dish for a five course lunch in Restaurant Patrick Guilbaud.