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Rahan Mummers from Co Offaly retained their title as champions in the senior event at New Inn Mummers’ Festival last weekend, while Lackagh Junior Mummers were the big winners in the junior event.

Nominations for the Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh are accepted until 5.30p.m this evening (January 15.

Westport Golf Club notices

Before it even begins its work, Mullingar’s Joint Policing Committee is finding itself in a legal quandary of its own.

McHale Park has been a home away from home for all those who have ever been involved in covering sports for local media in Mayo since the Castlebar grounds opened its doors in 1931, when Mayo took on Kildare at the grounds official opening. With the rain spilling down from an overcast spring afternoon last Friday the current day members of the local press corps were given a guided tour of the ambitious new development that has been undertaken at the famous old grounds. Led by Mayo GAA Board chairman James Waldron, the sheer size and ambition of the project became apparent. The old stand offered seating for 4,482 people with only 2,500 of those fully covered, had bad sight lines, and was far from the standards that you would expect from a modern ground. The new stand will see the capacity of the stadium go from an existing capacity of 35,482 up to 41,217, with the new stand offering 9,685 fully covered seats, the stand will stretch the full length of the pitch on the Sportlann side.

16-month old Zara Aylward, who has been waiting for a life-saving operation on her brain from Temple Street Hospital, has undergone the surgery at Great Ormonde Street Hospital in the UK with great success.

The six Family Resource Centres in Carlow and Kilkenny have had to take the unprecedented step of issuing a joint letter to thousands of Carlow/Kilkenny families to inform them of the precarious position of the future of their local community centres and family services following reports of their possible closure in local media.

Thousands are sailing

It's late in the evening, when this writer speaks to Adrian Hession, the full time hurling coaching officer with the Mayo county board, but it's always late in the evening when he puts the hurls away and gets to sit down and relax as he spreads the word of hurling in the county.

Rossport residents Willie and Mary Corduff and Vincent McGrath, chairman of Pobal Chill Chomáin, travelled to Derry last Friday where they raised concerns about the Corrib gas project with senior politicians and local media.