Rugby news is that Ireland beat Wales by 25 Pts to 24 Pts in the Six Nations Championship
and the final game against England next weekend will be a real cruncher.Both teams have
won all their games so far.Ray Walsh reckons that Corporate Boxes are impossible to get
and will cost about 1200 Euro.Ronan O Gara won the game on Saturday with a drop goal
scored in injury time.
Conor Killeen and five others are going to Chicago on April 23rd.They must want footballers
real bad as their fares will be paid and they will be fixed up with a job and play football for
the team that wants them.
Surprize win for the Offaly hurling team who beat Cork by 2 - 17 to 1 - 17.Nice job.
Four of our local girls featured on the Ferbane school basketball team last week when
they played Kanturk in the D Final down in Cork.
Josephine Egan, Lorraine Kenny, Ciara Mannion and Mary Quinn were involved.
Kanturk won by 24Points to 21 Points. Brave effort girls.
Fishing and Gerry Casey, John Coleman and John Gleeson braved the Shannon
sunshine yesterday to catch six pike weighing from 4 Lbs up to 12 Lbs.using
dead bait.Esa Kuivasniem a Finnish worker on the new power plant site also
went fishing and caught a 5 Lbs pike.
Bad news from Correen Ford. Peter Hines who has had a boat and engine on
the Suck which he uses for fishing and transport to Shannonbridge and to
Ballinasloe had his engine stolen from the boat last week.