Daithi Rua the Irish Singer and Songwriter was home from Belgium for
a week to help celebrate his Dad's birthday.Daithi is a son of Martin
and Dolores Donegan and Martin celebrated a special birthday with a
family meal in The Fort Restaurant. Daithi got together with his
family and musician friends in Killeens on Thursday night before he
returned to Belgium.He is currently working on his new album and he
expects that it will be available in mid-December.It may be called
Black Fox and will be recorded on The Wild Boar Label,which is based
in Belgium.
Check him out at myspace.com/offaly for his tour dates and news.
You can even listen to some of his recordings. Daithi has the same
information under the www.daithirua.com webpage. Or you can e-mail
Daithi using daithirua@gmail.com

The Bridies are off to Las Vegas this week to entertain.
Catch Maura playing in Casino New York New York in The Nine Fine
Irishmen suite.
Ailish is playing in The Mansion,called M
Maura and Ailish are daughters of Jim and Mai Egan from Cloghan.
Ailish told us that Ma and Da are also going out to Las Vegas with
their girls. Jim of course is a fine box player in his own right.

Best of luck to Eamon Haughey on his retirement from the ESB last week.

Al Byrne, a brother of Gay Byrne died last Friday and will be buried
on Thursday. May he rest in peace.

On Friday evening I noticed a load of large bales of golden straw go
past the window. Soon after the driver called in for tea and a sandwich
He told us that he was from Glann Road Oughterard and he knew Dick and
Doc Gilbert and Donal and Connie Connolly.

Read David Quinn's blog on www.irishcatholic.ie

A white goose has joined up with some swans near the village bridge.
Aidan Kelly has observed lots of trout rising to the fly while shooting
at Mc Ginness'es Scoriff last week. Aidan also shot a wild mink which
is good news as they are causing havoc to wildlife such as fish and
birds. The spelling of Scoriff is a guess. It is a low place near the river.