Dated in the early morning Friday 16^th March 07.

Pat Watson from Drum , the writer and storyteller called in today and met Jim and John Killeen who shared a refectory table with him many years ago in Garbally College. Pat is writing a series of local information stories from the locality he will tell on Shannonside Radio on Wednesday between 1.30 and 2.30. This radio station is available on the internet.

Pat Watson wrote a victory song for the successful Roscommon football team and used the O Donnell Abu music. It is sung by P.J.Stacey and is called The Rossies Abu. He seemed to have lots of copies of the disc. His book of short stories is still available and ask about one the next time you are in Shannonbridge.

People with access to the QVC buying channel in the USA may be interested to know that on St. Patrick’s Day they are featuring souvenir products from Ireland. In the line up will be Tipperary Crystal, Shannonbridge Pottery and Ballinahowen Bog Oak. Have an eye out for them. Charlie Hoysted from Shannonbridge Pottery tells us that some weeks ago the QVC people visited the featured factories and they also took some footage at Clonmacnois.