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CAVA, THE popular Spanish restaurant on Dominick Street will be the setting for two poetry readings as part of this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature.

There were no real surprises in the two provincial senior finals at Ballaghaderreen on Saturday afternoon as all-Ireland senior doubles champions Dessie Keegan and Joe McCann maintained their unbeaten run to take the provincial title at the expense of fellow club mates Vincent Moran and Campbell Brennan. The champions were in devastating form in a very one sided opener and they won it for the loss of just two aces. Moran and Brennan finally got around to playing some handball in the second and the duo, to their credit, made a real fight of it and it looked like the game could go either way at one stage. However Keegan and McCann did just enough to see off the challenge as they won the second 21 aces to 17. Marianna Rushe ran out the expected easy winner of the ladies’ senior singles final with an easy two games to nil victory over fellow St Coman’s contender Leona Doolin.

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WHEN DANISH poet Peter Wessel presents his Polyfonías Poetry Project in Galway as part of this year’s Cúirt International Festival of Literature, it will be a unique aural experience. It features poetry and music, but is not a poetry recital or a concert. It is instead an interaction between voice, verse, music, and languages, to create a new poetic-musical sound.

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“An address of recognition for Bishop Michael Smith on his silver jubilee,” was Cllr Jim Bourke’s unanimously approved proposal at the recent Mullingar Town Council meeting.

The recession not only makes things hard, it makes them near impossible. Money is needed to achieve results in transport, infrastructure, and the environment, yet progress must be made in all these areas if Galway is going to come through the economic downturn relatively unscathed.

“We are here to give thanks for the blessings we have all received through his work and his ministry.”