Thanks to CT hopefully the way to the internet has been found. Sorry about the break and the little notes in the pockets are a bit out of date.

Some more recent news includes –

The N6 motorway from Dublin to Galway had the Kinnegad – Kilbeggan stretch opened

last week.

Election Day is fixed for next Thursday 24^th May. Hopefully all the posters will be removed fast.

Gracefield beat Shannonbridge in the first round of this year’s Offaly football championship on Saturday. The Shannonbridge second string was beaten today.

Padraig Harrington won the Irish Open golf at Adare today. He is the first winner since 1982 and it went to a playoff with Bradley Drage.

Oliver Darcy tells us that Galway footballers beat Mayo. Meath footballers beat Kildare.

Tyrone footballers beat Fermanagh. Louth and Wicklow footballers drew.

Down beat Cavan in a replay.

Chelsea beat Man United in the English Cup Final.

Roger Van don Berg from Vokselaar in Belgium told us that they have been having a Nar Fir Bolg Festival in Belgium at the end of June each year for the past ten years.

George Stokes from Walsall and his friends have arrived for a week fishing and singing ‘The Fields of Athenry’.