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SARAH JAROSZ will play Campbell’s Tavern this Saturday July 19 at 8pm as part of the Galway International Arts Festival.

Fifteen members of staff in the Athlone Towncentre branch of Monsoon Accessorize are now fearful for their future with the news that the company is to seek High Court protection next week so it might continue trading as a going concern.

Argos has announced at least 20 part-time jobs will be created in its Athlone branch for Christmas as part of a nationwide drive to employ additional seasonal staff.

SINGER-SONGWRITER Martina Flaherty, whose music encompasses folk, blues, rock, soul, and funk plays Monroe’s Live this Saturday at 9pm.

A man accused of setting fire to a UK block of flats killing two promising young jockeys, including Claregalway native Jamie Kyne, refused to give evidence at his trial yesterday.

A jury in the trial of a man accused of setting fire to a block of flats in the UK killing two young jockeys, including Claregalway native Jamie Kyne, has heard that he sent “creepy” text messages to a teenage girl and had committed the arson attack as an act of revenge.

Further charges could be brought against a 37-year-old man accused of murdering two promising young jockeys, including Claregalway teen Jamie Kyne, who perished in a blaze at a UK block of flats last year.

Following a week fraught with continuing tension between protesters and Shell E & P Ireland and the undertaking of a hunger strike by Maura Harrington, a resolve in the contentious issue may have been attained when at lunch time Thursday SEPIL released a statement in which it confirmed that “the Solitaire will leave Killybegs today for a UK port where deep water berthing facilities are available”.

On the weekend of a championship match Jury’s Hotel, Croke Park is normally buzzing with animated followers of all the participating teams and last weekend was no exception. I was there early as I had overnighted in the capital and I made my way to the hotel to soak up the atmosphere hours before the game. I mingled with a number of Cork supporters chatting about the match and, to a man, they were hugely confident of their chances against Tyrone. They talked about the maturity of the team this year, the options off the bench and the aerial dominance they had at midfield. A number of them suggested that, not alone would they beat Tyrone, but that they had availed of the 7/2 on offer from most bookmakers on Cork to win the All-Ireland. After engaging them in conversation and having the crack with several of them I must admit that they had me convinced, too, that they were the team to beat this year. Jack O’Connor and Ger O’Keeffe arrived at the hotel. There was a rush of eager youngsters to Jack looking for autographs and he was as courteous as one would expect from a GAA manager, spending time chatting and encouraging all of them. Jack’s son was playing on the Kerry minor team later and he was anxious to have some food before heading across to Croker. We chatted for a while with the ever attentive hotel manager, who incidentally is a Kerryman, and had food organised for the boys. They had played golf somewhere between Kerry and Dublin on the Saturday afternoon and O’Connor was as excited as a young lad with a new toy as he described how he hammered O’Keeffe in a game of ‘skins’ (golfers will understand what I am talking about here). I suggested that a Cork victory over Tyrone wouldn’t necessarily be the result that Jack would prefer. It was widely acknowledged that the Kerry lads would have loved a crack at Tyrone in an All-Ireland this year, bearing in mind their record against the current champions. He didn’t disagree and acknowledged that if Kerry got to a final against Tyrone, his job from a motivational perspective would’ve been a lot easier.

A 53-year-old man who while intoxicated refused to give his name to gardaí and told them that they would be “banished to Bonniconlon” faced a section eight public order charge, for failure to comply with gardaí, at Ballina District Court on Tuesday.