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Roundford man Martin Heneghan scooped the Irish title in the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin defeating Kilkenny’s David Coyne in the final on Saturday August 28. Martin saw off the Leinster man 4-0 in the final with some very good play. It was almost an all Mayo final with Martin defeating fellow Roundford player Michael Connelly, 4-3, in the semi-final in a competition which featured the 50 top players in the country. Heneghan has now qualified to take part in the PDC Unicorn World u21 championship which will take place in Barnsley, England, in November.

AS IT is World Cup time we all hope that Messi, Torres, Kaka, and Podolski might net a few hat tricks on the way, but it seems Galway’s Ken Bruen has beaten them to it.

KEN BRUEN, the Galwegian and internationally acclaimed crime fiction author, has received a nomination in the 2010 Spinetingler Awards.

“Almost...but not quite” is how Galway Fianna Fáil might sum up its team for June’s Local Elections in both the city and county, with many candidates virtually certain to be selected, others still battling for a place, and the rest in the dark as to what party HQ intends to do with them.

Internationally acclaimed Galway crime author Ken Bruen has won Le Grand Prix De La Littérature Policière 2009 for the best non-French language crime novel.