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Revenue’s DLR house prices ‘misleading’ – FF

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HOUSE price estimates for Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown assessed by the Revenue Commissioner ahead of the upcoming property tax in July, have been slated as

“incorrect” and “misleading” by a local Fianna Fail area representative.

James McCann (FF) has claimed that the figures esti-mated for DLR properties are nowhere near realistic, in terms of what residents will

have to pay in property tax.He said: “Houses for sale

in the Sallynoggin area, for example, averaging €239,500, according to Daft.ie, are worth €450,000 to €500,000, based on Revenue estimates.”

Revenue chairperson, Josephine Feehily, said the estimates are only a support for self-assessment, and that home owners should fac-tor in unique or exceptional features.

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Celebrating stars: A glittering night for sports figuresthe fourth annual Gazette Sports Awards saw many of the city’s top players from a wide range of sports gather at the Red Cow Moran Hotel in Clondalkin.

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group Newspapers for many years, and a sorely-missed colleague and friend

shock, sadness at news of peter doyle’s passingIT was with great sadness and shock that we learned of the sudden passing of our colleague and friend, Peter Doyle, last week.

Peter, who many in our communities will have known through his pho-tography for this news-paper, died suddenly last Thursday.

He had worked in The Gazette as senior staff photographer for more than five years but, due to ill health, had not been as prolific in recent years.

One of life’s true gen-tlemen, he was a fantas-tic ambassador for The Gazette, and was eas-ily spotted at local events in his trademark black leather jacket, with his long-lens camera hanging around his neck.

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Support addiction serviceALCOHOL addiction support group The RISE Foundation is holding a number of fundrais-ing drives in the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown area.

Sandycove Vintage and Classics Charity Shop are supporting the char-ity through the sale of vintage clothing during March and April, and are appealing to local people to donate items.

Ouzos Restaurant in Dalkey and Blackrock is also supporting the foundation, with coupons offering 15% off the bill available to be used from April 1 until April 12.

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Small task, big ideas: Student gets to grips with understanding nano sciencealiCe Kearns, Loreto Abbey, Dalkey proved she was a bright spark when she dabbled with nanoscience, “the science of the small”, at Trinity College recently. Alice and other transition year students there with several schools participating in a special Experience Nano week, organised by CRANN, the nanoscience institute at TCD. Working with minute materials requires some pretty big ideas, with the stu-dents happy to tackle microscopic tasks to get a greater understand-ing of nano topics.

Play your part in the DLR clean-up bairbre Ni bhraoNaiN

DESPITE the flurry of snow recently, spring has sprung in Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Coun-cil (DLRCC), and the council is all set for a big spring clean-up.

An Taisce’s National Spring Clean 2013 is coming to the DLR region in April and this yearis the 15th anniver-sary of the annual clean-up drive.

DLRCC is encour-aging everyone in the county to get stuck in this year, and to do their bit to make the initiative the best and brightest yet for the anniversary.

Everyone can become involved in cleaning up their own areas dur-

ing the month, whether it is on a small or large scale.

Individuals or local residents’ groups can participate in the annual spring clean this year, with the council’s sup-port.

DLRCC will provide litter-picking partici-pants with gloves and other resources to elimi-nate the waste from each area during the weekend clean-up.

NominateGroups who wish

to be involved should nominate a particular weekend in April so that the council can schedule a pick-up of all waste material collected on the following Monday or

Tuesday.Spring Clean 2012 was

a great success, with more than 500,000 volunteers taking part in some 5,439 events nationwide, which saw an estimated 2,010 tonnes of litter col-lected.

To register for the com-munity clean-up, email DLRCC with a choice of weekend at [email protected], or telephone 01 205 4817.

The National Spring Clean is run by An Taisce in partnership with the Department of Envi-ronment, Heritage and Local Government, and local authorities, and is sponsored by Coca-Cola Bottlers Ireland, the Wri-gley Company Ltd and Repak.

litter: localS invited to get Stuck into nationwide Spring initiative


initiative national campaign will benefit DLR area

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ALL secondary schools in the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown area, as well as those in the Greater Dub-lin, Meath and Kildare areas, are to receive high-

speed broadband access by 2014, it was announced jointly by Communica-tions and Energy Minis-ter Pat Rabbitte, and Edu-cation Minister Ruairi Quinn last week.

Altogether, 216 schools

will get the 100 MBPS (business-class service) broadband access in a nationally rolled-out campaign.

This will be the second phase of a project initi-ated in 2012 when broad-

band was installed in all post-primary schools in 14 western and midlands counties, covering 202 schools.

The Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources is

funding all of the capi-tal costs of this project, estimated to be approxi-mately €11 million, as well as contributing some €10 million in current costs for the years 2012 to 2015.

Schools to get high-speed broadband by 2014

Property tax valuations ‘incorrect and damaging’ bairbre Ni bhraoNaiN

THE Revenue Commis-sioners’ valuation of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown properties for the pur-poses of property tax esti-mates has been described as “incorrect, misleading and damaging,” by a local Fianna Fail area repre-sentative.

The Revenue recently published estimates of property valuations across the country.

Howe ve r , J a m e s McCann (FF) has claimed that the figures estimated for DLR properties are nowhere near realistic in terms of what residents will have to pay in prop-erty tax.

Property tax self-as-sessment forms are being posted out to all house-holders this week and the completed forms, with the property value of each home, will have to be sent back to Revenue in May. The tax will then come into force from July.

McCann said: “Rev-enue has based property values on Electoral Divi-sions, which is [in] no way indicative of current market values.

“According to this form of calculation, houses for sale in the Sallynoggin area for example, aver-aging €239,500, accord-ing to Daft.ie, are worth €450,000 to €500,000 based on Revenue esti-

mates, which is a differ-ence of €450 per annum in property tax.”

McCann has stated that he has now written to the Revenue Commissioners asking them to reassess how they calculate the tax, but a spokesperson for Revenue said that the chairman’s office had not received any communica-tion from Mr McCann.

Revenue also stressed that the valuations given by them should be used as a guide by residents.

Revenue chairman Josephine Feehily said: “All of these sources are intended as a support for self-assessment. If a per-son’s property has unique features, is smaller or larg-

er than the average for the area, is in a significantly poor state of repair or has exceptional features, the person should factor those in when self-assess-ing the value band.

“Location is also a rel-evant factor for a person to consider – as all estate agents will tell you.”

According to Cllr Jim O’Dea (FG), the task of accurately assessing prop-erty prices in a fluctuating market is difficult.

He said:“The Rev-enue Commissioners have been very open in admitting that the prop-erty values are merely a guide and that some of the property values will be too high and others

too low.“I have seen first-hand

that many property val-ues for the Dundrum area are at least €100,000 below the actual prices being obtained for hous-es which were sold in the recent past.”

Cllr Denis O’Callaghan (Lab) said: “If an indi-vidual householder is not satisfied with the valua-tion determined by the Revenue Commissioners, they should get an inde-pendent valuation done on their dwelling.”

Dun Laoghaire-Rath-down County Council refused to comment on the valuations made by the Revenue in respect of gauging property tax.

economy: RePResentatives weigh in on contRoveRsiaL chaRge

EntErprisEnEws

“taking the mystery out of accounts preparation and calculating your tax” Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Enterprise Board is running a seminar to help small business owners examine and get to grips with the basics of understand-ing accounts preparation and the resultant payment of tax. Guidance will also be provided on what is required to be tax compliant, and the impact that taxation has on business profitability and cash flow.

This full day seminar will take place on Wednesday, March 27th 2013 from 9am-5pm in Fitzpatrick’s Castle Hotel, Killiney and will cover:

• Basics of preparing trading/financial statements• The roles of the Companies’ Registration Office

and the Revenue Commissioners• The advantages and disadvantages of limited

companies vs. sole trader• Understanding the responsibilities of being a com-

pany director• Reporting requirements for companies and sole

traders• The fundamentals of income tax and corporation

tax systems• VAT rules and regulations, registration, record keep

ing and returns• Employment taxes PAYE/PRSI• On-line filing ROS• Basic Income Tax and Corporation Tax Examples

with Case Studies• Accounting for expenses in a business, tax evasion

vs. tax avoidance. This is a very dynamic and interactive seminar which will leave participants with the knowledge to ensure that their businesses are tax compliant. The cost of this seminar is €45 per person (including a light lunch).

For full detail and to book your place, please visit www.dlrceb.ie/training. Details on all the other Enter-prise Board supports open to small businesses locally are also available online.

Practical accounts and taxation WorkshoP

happy hearts: charity launch to educatepictUreD are George Lee, RTE pre-senter (left), Dr Orina Belton, lecturer, School of Biomolecular and Biomedi-cal Science, UCD Conway Institute, UCD and David Bobbett, entrepre-neur and founder of the Irish Heart Disease Awareness charity which was recently launched. The charity was developed to raise awareness of heart disease as a progressive, manageable and preventable disease that can be detected by a simple calcification test. The charity is calling for people to visit their doctor to discuss heart disease and for Ireland to adopt international best practice by having calcification scoring included in cardiovascular risk assessment. Visit www.ihda.ie for more information.

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crafts 17 designers’ wares go on show

corner the very latest in top DLr designs

red rufus Sock Dogs are just some of the diverse range of goods created in the Dlr

region that are on show at the Design Corner, located in Park house, in Dun laoghaire

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SEVENTEEN of Dub-lin’s top designers will display their wares in the spring range at the Dun Laoghaire-Rath-down County Enterprise Board-supported Design Corner, located in Park House on the corner of Upper Georges Street, Dun Laoghaire.

The Design Corner pro-vides a platform for Irish designers and features everything from jewel-lery to bird houses, toys to cards, art and ceramics, all of which were locally created.

The project is a DLRCEB initiative to support local craft and design in the county.

Each designer will dou-ble up as a shop assistant, thereby offering a very personal service to cus-tomers.

The Design Corner will open its doors to the pub-lic on Friday, March 15, and will stay on George’s Street for the next seven weeks until the May Bank Holiday.

Among the 17 design-ers are Ali Nash Jewellery, Killiney Arts Ceramics, Tara Hammond’s Slated gifts, Vivien Walsh Jewel-lery, Christina Sanne’s Red Rufus Sock Dogs, Cathy White’s Vintage Bags and Melanie Hand’s Jewellery.

Newcomers to the Design Centre for this season are Mar t in Kennedy, of Ecomelts, the eco-friendly candles, and Fan Regan of Fawn Printing.

Suzanne May, project manager of the Design Corner Network, said: “The Design Corner is all about direct connectivity with the makers and their work.

“It’s a great opportunity for the makers to launch new work. We know that our loyal customers love the fact that they get the first opportunity to see new work from the designers.”

Georgina Sweetnam, assistant chief executive of DLRCEB, said: “This is our fifth Design Corner, and our second spring shop. It’s been a very suc-cessful initiative.

“This initiative is just one part of our wider supports for these enter-prises. We provide each of them with ongoing promotional, sales and marketing opportuni-ties right throughout the year. It also ties in with Dun Laoghaire-Rath-down County Council’s BRAND initiative, to boost retail trade in the area.

“Last year’s Design Corner projects were all a great success, and we hope the Design Corner Network continues right

throughout the year.“We selected 17 design-

ers through a jury proc-ess, and feel we’ve got a great range and price mix. We look forward to yet another successful year,” said Sweetnam.

Late last year, one of the companies in the Design Corner, Tara Hammond won air time to advertise her Slated products on a television shopping chan-

nel as part of a competi-tion for new businesses.

Another Design Cor-ner company, Red Rufus Socks, was one of the 20 shortlisted companies in the same competition.

The Design Corner is open from 10am to 6pm from Mondays to Sat-urdays, and from 11am to 6pm on Sundays and bank holidays until Mon-day, May 6.

Open evening for businessTWO Dun Laoghaire companies, Carpet and Flooring Concepts and MHF Architects, joined forces recently to hold an open evening and wine reception to promote local business.

The event was attended by customers, repre-sentatives of the local business community and the Dun Laoghaire Chamber of Commerce.

FastNews

Move to create tourist hubPLANS to facilitate a new tourist information hub in County Hall were outlined this week at a meeting of Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.

County manager Owen Keegan responded to Cllr Victor Boyhan’s (Ind) question about a tourist office by saying he had: “decided to investigate the possibility of issuing a conces-sion to an operator providing tourist informa-tion services based in the former reception area in County Hall”.

He said the whole reception area would be refurbished and a tourist office operational by this summer.

In response, Cllr Boyhan said: “I very much welcome this initiative and joined-up approach by the council to promote and facilitate tourism locally, and act as a link with national tourism events and programmes.”


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Winners take all at sports awardsTHE annual Gazette Sports Awards were

recently held at the Red Cow Moran Hotel in Clondalkin. This is the fourth year that

the Dublin Gazette Newspapers have hosted this awards night, which recognise the various achievements and dedication of sports players in our local communties.

The winners included Paralympian cyclist Catherine Walsh, who was named Sports Star of the Year, and St Brigid’s U-14s who were named Team of the Year.

Some well-known faces attended the awards, including Ireland’s badminton champion Scott Evans and boxing legend Mick Dowling.

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MUCH has been com-mented on in the media in recent weeks in rela-tion to my proposals for the alignment of local government and local development.

There has been talk of the loss of funding and, more recently, job losses.

While this scaremon-gering may very well be intended to serve other agendas, I want to make it clear that my sole agen-da is to protect frontline

services to local commu-nities.

I don’t accept that the current local develop-ment structures are the most efficient method of delivering services to local communities.

The Alignment Steer-ing Group that I set up to review this area noted the complex range of structures and entities that deliver local and community development supports, all with their

own administration over-heads.

The group reported that “these administration functions carry signifi-cant costs and can divert resources from frontline services”.

The group also noted the duplication and over-lap that resulted from the complexity of the local development landscape.

I make no apology for the fact that I intend to tackle these issues.

Minister for the environment, Community and local government Phil hogan (Fg)

We simply have to look for more cost-effective delivery mechanisms in the current economic cli-mate.

The Action Programme for Effective Local Gov-ernment – Putting People First recommends greater alignment between local government and local development, including the 51 local development companies that currently deliver important pro-grammes for my depart-ment, amongst others.

T he Government accepted the recom-mendations made by the Alignment Steering Group.

Under those proposals, local development com-panies will continue to have a role in local devel-opment delivery.

There is no logic, there-fore, to the statement this alignment will lead to massive job losses, as has been alleged.

What we need is a more streamlined system, which is fit for purpose, and eliminates unneces-sary duplication.

In recent weeks, we have seen the outline for EU budgets for 2014 – 2020 agreed.

The amount of fund-ing available under the LEADER Programme, which has yet to be final-ised, will be severely cur-tailed compared to what we had under the previ-ous programme.

This is further compel-ling evidence of the need to reform the whole area and get better value for money.

Business as usual is not an option, and the need to change is made

My agenda is to protect frontline services for allBy streamlining systems we will be able to deliver better results

opinion Minister phil Hogan writes for The Gazette

all the more urgent by the expected reductions in funding.

There is a pressing need, therefore, to ensure that the various agencies handling public funds work together, to make the best use of the scarce resources available [in order] to deliver the best level of service possible in the most cost-effective and efficient way.

PartnershipAlignment is about

doing just that – it is about developing a partnership approach between the local government and local development sectors in order to bring about a more effective delivery of services to our communi-ties and citizens.

I am very aware that the local development sector in Ireland has a

strong history, and han-dles large volumes of pub-lic funding.

However, change is required across all sectors to help meet the challeng-es facing us during these difficult times.

This debate has been over-focused, to date, on protecting structures and organisations.

I can understand that maintaining the status quo is the primary con-cern of vested interest groups.

However, I want to ensure that the best serv-ices are delivered to citi-zens and communities in the context of reducing budgets. We simply can-not expect to continue as we are.

I believe that the new alignment arrangements will place local devel-opment structures on a

more sustainable footing, and will help lessen the impact on programmes of reduced funding over the next few years.

We now know that there will be reductions in programme funding and, by extension, admin funding, in the context of budgetary processes at both national and EU level.

However, alignment is not about driving cuts to programme funding; rather, it is about help-ing to sustain the impact of local and community development services through more efficient, effective and joined-up structures.

I have met the stake-holders in recent weeks to discuss this matter, and I will continue to do so until we have a work-able solution.


Walk in seniors’ shoes bairbre Ni bhraoNaiN

AN ART exhibition of multimedia artwork by senior citizens is being run by Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown community-based services for older people.

Senior citizens from The Meeting Place will showcase the work, enti-tled, Walk In Our Shoes.

Walk In Our Shoes is the group’s new crea-tive endeavour showcas-ing what it is like to be a senior citizen in the DLR region.

The exhibition will open on Tuesday, March 26, with an afternoon tea reception at 2.15pm in The Signal Art Gallery in Bray, Co Wicklow.

Walk In Our Shoes will continue to run until Sun-day, April 7.

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Ministers head off for St Pat’s parties bairbre Ni bhraoNaiN

TWO government minis-ters from Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown are travelling great distances for St Patrick’s Day, this year.

Tanaiste Eamon Gil-more is going to Wash-ington, while the Minister for Justice, Alan Shatter is already in the Middle East.

Minister Shatter has already visited the Unit-ed Nations Missions in Lebanon to congratulate troops on their recent awarding of UN medals.

During his visit to the Irish Troops in south Lebanon, the Minister will also visit Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Ramallah and the Golan Heights, where members of the Defence

Forces serving with the UN Truce Supervision Organisation are cur-rently based.

His mission to the Middle East is also being described as one promot-ing research and innova-tion, bilateral trade links and tourism.

Meanwhile, former TD Chris Andrews has been invited to Minister Shatter’s Palestinian St Patrick’s Day party – but it appears he won’t be able to go, because of restric-tions placed on travelling from Gaza to Jerusalem and back again.

Andrews, a Fianna Fail TD in Dublin South East from 2007 to 2011, has been working for the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza

City since shortly after Christmas.

A week ago he received an official invitation from Ireland’s representative to the Palestinian Authority, inviting him to celebrate St Patrick’s Day in Jeru-salem in the company of Minister Shatter.

“I was surprised to get the invitation, to be hon-est,” Andrews said from Gaza.

A Department of For-eign Affairs official told Andrews that while he might be permitted to exit Gaza through the Israeli crossing at Erez, Irish officials would not be able to secure permis-sion from Israel for him to return to Gaza.

Andrews entered Gaza 12 weeks ago.

heritage: duty sees official visits to washington, middle east

northerner delights: derry artist runs first exhibition in the republicCoUNtY Derry artist Adrian Margey is set to delight Dubliners with his first exhibition in the Republic, courtesy of a free exhibition of his works. Vivid depictions of Dalkey Island, Dun Laoghaire Harbour, Bray Head and Seapoint, amongst other spots, will give the exhibition a very local flavour, while his beautiful depictions of Dingle, Donegal and Connemara, combined with his distinctive portrayals of the Wicklow hills and north Antrim coast, are set to make his exhibition a veritable whistle-stop tour of Ireland. Opening on Friday evening, March 15 at the Radisson Blu St Helen’s Hotel, located on the N11 Stillorgan dual carriageway, the exhibition continues until Monday, March 18. For further information, see www.adrianmargey.com.


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AS ONE might expect, there were some striking looks at Roisin Hogan House at Dun

Laoghaire Institute of Art and Design (IADT) recently when former Irish make-up artist Toni Delany launched her memoirs.

Models with a variety of eye-catching make-up added to the

launch’s atmosphere, with lots of people keen to meet Toni, and to hear first-hand about her experi-ences of working on many films around the world.

Having worked with a wide variety of stars, including Daniel Day Lewis, Richard Burton, Rod Steiger, Lee Marvin, Fred Astaire,

Sean Connery, Martin Sheen, Vanessa Redgrave, Helen Mir-ren, Pierce Brosnan and Emma Thompson, Toni’s book is a fasci-nating read indeed.

Published by Ashfield Press, Made-Up – Tales of an Irish Make-up Artist in Film is avail-able now, priced €14.99.

Make-up artist’s tales uncover life with stars

Monika Pawlak, with particularly eye-catching style and make-up.

Pictures: Geraldine Woods

toni Delany

Patrick Duffner, Michael elgar, annie Doona and Donald taylor-Black

Maura little and Mary o’Brien, toni Delany’s daughterJessica heffernan

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You’ll be green-ing away at all the Paddy’s day fun bairbre ni bhraonain

THIS year’s St Patrick’s Festival is sure to be a corker, with cultural events and entertainment galore lined up as well as a brand new people’s parade that anyone can participate in.

An estimated 8,000 people from around the world are expected to march in the people’s parade, for which you can register in City Hall until

Saturday, March 16.The five-day St Patrick’s

festival will feature talks, musical performances and tours, which will be dotted all over the capital from Thursday, March 14 until Monday, March 18.

For example, on lunch-time on Friday, March 15, in Marsh’s Library (beside St Patrick’s Cathedral), there will be a special Gathering talk by travel writer Tur-tle Bunbury entitled: Of

Gunslingers, Tarantulas, Elvis and Walt – A Glo-bal History of the Irish Abroad.

On Saturday, March 16, in the Irish Film Cen-tre in Temple Bar, the Oscar-nominated anima-tion, The Secret Of Kells, will be shown at 11am.

Entry is priced at €5 per person, and €15 for a family ticket of two adults and two children.

On the day itself, March 17, An Chaba-

ret Craiceailte, a selec-tion of the best of Irish, rock, dance, rap and ska music will be performed at Dame Court, from 6pm until 9pm, for all to enjoy.

As a patriotic back-drop, some of the city’s most important, iconic landmarks will be turn-ing green with gusto for the festival.

For the full festival event listing, see www.stpatricksfestival.ie. expect the city to be transformed with St Patrick’s Day-themed activities

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Tayto ‘blasta’ from past makes crisp work of Gaeilge’s week

Gaeilgeoir and model Roz Lipsett met Mr tayto to announce the arrival onto shelves nationwide of a limited

edition tayto cheese and onion six-pack

Crisp lovers were given a blast from the past this week with the launch of Tayto’s retro 1980s packs.

The new bags, which are printed as gaeilge, were launched by gaeil-geoir and irish model roz Lipsett, who met Mr Tayto to announce the arrival of a limited edition Tayto cheese and onion six-pack.

The new Tayto pack pays homage to the retro 1980s design that will be remembered by Tayto lovers everywhere, with the iconic red, white and blue bags making a come-back.

A limited amount of the new Tayto packs will be sold in super-markets nationwide for the next eight weeks and they promise to be a much sought after item in the run up to st patrick’s Day and during seachtain na Gaeilge.

More information on the bags and the compa-ny can be found at www.facebook.com/MrTayto or follow Mr Tayto on Twitter @MrTaytoire-land.

an eveninG with authoR Dan BRown irish fans of interna-

tional bestseller Dan Brown are being given the chance to spend an evening with him at the National Concert hall as part of Dublin Writ-ers Festival.

The Da Vinci Code writer will host An Even ing wi th Dan Brown on May 20.

This event is part of the 15th Dublin Writers Festival which returns on May 20-26.

Full details on the festival’s programme are to be announced on Wednesday, April 10 but because of this exciting event, organisers are letting fans know just what kind of amazing authors will be at the festival this year.

This event marks Brown’s first visit to ire-land and also marks the publication of his brand new novel, inferno, which will be published mid-May.

Brown will be dis-cussing his latest novel, set in italy and centred around one of history’s most enduring master-pieces: Dante’s infer-no.

Tickets for this event cost €20 and are on sale now.

For booking informa-tion see www.dublinfes-tival.com.

iReLanD’s next top touR ManaGeRYouNG aspiring music tour managers will now have the opportunity to make their dreams of working in the music industry come true with a new rTE 2 show called

Music inc.The new show is call-

ing for all talented, young music mad people to try out for a competition and be monitored by Liam McKenna who has han-dled JLs, Jedward and more.

The show will feature some of the pop world’s

most successful pop stars as contestants go behind the scenes and tour man-age the acts.

organisers of Music inc are searching for 10 teenagers who love music to participate in the com-petition whilst gaining real hands-on experience behind the scenes as they

battle it out in a series of challenges.

The ultimate winner will not just take the title, but the grand prize of a week on tour shadowing Liam.

Anyone who would like the opportunity to com-pete to become ireland’s next top tour manager,

can apply by emailing [email protected].

a chance to win a DReaM weDDinGBriDEs and grooms-to-be could be in with a last minute chance to win a €20,000 wedding prize, thanks to a brand new “lottery of love” which is set to close on Friday, March 15.

A total of €700,000 worth of weddings will be up for grabs on www.winourwedding.ie, a web-site launched exclusively for engaged couples.

There will be a wed-ding to be won in every county in ireland, with two prizes to be won in Dublin.

The love lo t ter y requires couples, includ-ing those who have already booked their big day, to register online for €10, and provide some details on themselves and their wedding plans, to be in with a chance to win their dream wedding by getting their family and friends to vote for them.

Entries should be made online by midnight, Fri-day, March 15, with win-ners to be announced at the end of May. Log onto www.winourwedding.ie for more information.


FEATURE

Aideen strikes gold with her Dragon deal PaUL HOSFORD

The organiser of local performance bootcamp S t a r c a m p , A i d e e n O’Grady, feels like she has “struck gold” after managing to attract the investment of Drag-ons’ Den mogul Peter Casey.

Aideen O’Grady runs Starcamp, which pro-vides summer perform-ing camps for children in Ballinteer, Knockly-on, Lucan, Swords and Malahide. She gave up just 5% of her company in return for €30,000 of investment.

Aideen hopes this will develop the company, which is Ireland’s only nationwide perform-ance camp group.

Giving up 5%, plus a €3 royalty per child until Casey’s initial investment is paid off, was nothing compared to what Aileen had

planned to give up.“entering the Den,

everyone must state the percentage that they are willing to part with for a certain amount of money” Aideen said, “but at the end of the day, of course you leave room for negotiation, the cut-off point in my head was actually 25%, if I got the right Dragon to invest!”

Aideen is the first ever contestant to enter the Irish Dragons’ Den and to part with only 5% of her business, half of the 10% she had intended. Another first is the trip to America that Peter, who is based stateside, threw in to seal the deal.

With the expansion of the school, Aideen will be looking for fran-chisees.

“For €6,500 you can set up your dream stage school or for €4,000

you can own your own party business.

“It is a simple and very achievable way for so many people to buy into a company and brand that is succeed-ing beyond all expecta-tion through this reces-sion, and where oppor-tunities and growth are limitless,” says Aideen, who wouldn’t change her experience on the show at all.

“I wouldn’t change a thing. Then again, that’s one of my main beliefs in life, everything that happens - happens for a reason. That means even if I blabber, lose my cool or near ly run out the door with nerves – then suck it up and laugh it off, it was meant to happen to me for some ridiculous rea-son.

“The bottom line is I could not be happier with the outcome.”

aideen O’Grady has attracted the investment of Dragons’ Den mogul Peter Casey

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AS PART of this year’s St Patrick’s Festival, Super-Valu will be running a series of food workshops to teach children how to create funky lunches for themselves.

The SuperValu Big Day Out’s Real Food Zone takes place in Mer-rion Square from noon to 6pm on Saturday, March 16 – the eve of St Patrick’s Day – and Mark North-east, creator of new craze, Funky Lunches, will be on hand to help children

to get artistic with lunch-es by trans-f o r m i n g their sand-wiches into favourite car-toon characters such as Spongebob Squarepants, and Charlie and Lola.

Northeast, who will come over from his native England for the SuperVa-lu day out on St Patrick’s Eve to run the Funky Lunches workshops, spoke to The Gazette about taking part in the

event, and the idea behind the Real F o o d

Zone.“I was

invi ted to the St Patrick’s

Festival by SuperValu to create the zone. I have been giving these food workshops for years, and go out to lots of primary schools in England to teach the children how to be creative with food and how to design and make food faces.”

Put a smile on your face (and on your food, too)

FAMILIES: SUPERVALU FOOD WORKSHOP FOR KIDS

The whole idea is really to try to encourage chil-dren to eat healthy food they wouldn’t normally eat by making funny, col-ourful characters out of the produce.

“At the Big Day Out, we will be using fresh fruit and vegetables from SuperValu to make the Funky Lunches, and we’ll also be teaching the children how to use uten-sils to create their own lunches.

“It’s important that they are taught how to peel and cut safely, so I sit

down and engage with a child while teaching them these new skills.

“There have been a few times when I’ve had to intervene when a child was trying to cut a cucum-ber dangerously, so the safety aspect is extremely important.

“It’s also great to pass on these important [life] skills to children and see their confidence with food grow,” said Northeast.

The original idea behind Funky Lunches resulted from Northeast having to get creative when his four-year-old son refused to eat his lunch one day.

“It all started with try-ing to get a grumpy son to eat a sandwich. I made it into a face, and this encouraged him to eat it, and then he wanted to learn how to make it

himself.”Although Northeast is

in the food business today, his background was not in the culinary arts.

“I was a web designer, so my creative streak came out with the situa-tion with my son.

“I worked from home, and when the Funky Lunch idea started to gel, I set up a website for it and then Facebook and

Twitter really pushed the idea ahead greatly.”

To date, Northeast has written two cookbooks, both of which have won awards in Britain, and he is writing another.

He also intends to cre-ate a range of ready-made Funky Lunch products within the next six to 12 months and these will then be sold in shops in the future. Northeast will

also set up a franchise for the workshops to be held all over the world.

For now, he is looking forward to coming to Ire-land for the festival.

“I’m looking forward to seeing what the chil-dren can create with the fresh fruit and veg ingre-dients from SuperValu, which provide such a good colour palette for art.”

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Sarah Darley (from Bettystown), Rhiann Smith (Tyrellstown), Allan O’Kearney

(Lucan) and Alex Murgutroyd (Castleknock) had an uplifting experience with The

Balloon Girls from PaperDolls Performance Company at the launch of the upcoming

SuperValu Big Day Out, which will feature Funky Lunches classes for children

The children want everyone to pay attention and eat healthily

to get artistic

favourite car-toon characters such as Spongebob

event, and the idea behind the Real F o o d

Zone.“I was

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Festival by SuperValu to

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Fundraising, busi-ness and fashion came together in a special event hosted by rTE’s Off the rail’s presenter sonya Lennon and organised by local busi-ness sodexo.

The event raised €3,000 for dress for success, a non-profit organisation that promotes the eco-nomic advancement of disadvantaged women.

The event took place in the Bord Bia building on Mount street in the city centre and the night was one of fashion and fun as sonya and her team gave

Q&a

Spotting how to fill a gap in education marketLiKE many people in recent times, Linda Hennessey, operations direc-tor, The Exam Centre, found herself redundant three years ago after work-ing in the private education industry for more than 10 years.

With this experience under her belt, and after completing an hon-ours degree in business management,

she decided to set up business with a colleague of hers, and together they launched The Exam Centre.

They are located just off Exit 15 of the M50, and right beside the Luas. Exam takers can order exams and/or invigilation services through the Exam Centre by calling 01 685 4942, or see www.theexamcentre.com.

How long have you been in busi-ness?

The Exam Centre has been running on a part-time basis since 2010, but we are about to ramp the business up to a full time venture based on feedback and demand from clients for exam invigilation services at a time that suits them.

What makes your business suc-cessful?

We feel that a customer-centric approach has worked for us. We constantly strive to adapt our busi-nesses operations to focus purely on what will make life easier and stress free for the customer and we have reaped the rewards.

What do you offer your clients that differs from your competitors?

We are the largest dedicated exam centre in the country and offer cus-tomers over 1,000 different examina-tions at a convenient time to them. We don’t believe that you have to wait for exams. some 99.9% of our customers get to take their exam on the day they want it at the time that suits them – no waiting, no fuss, no hassle, whether that be daytime, evening or weekends.

How has the recession impacted your business?

There is no doubt that the reces-sion has had a negative impact on everyone in business. in my case, i found myself redundant from a job i held for over 10 years back in 2009 and this gave me the push to start up

my own business. so the recession has impacted in a positive way on me, as it gave me the opportunity to work for myself. We have found that more and more people are up-skill-ing and re-skilling in order to remain employable and this in turn brings opportunities for The Exam Centre to facilitate the certification process.

How do you use social media (Face-book, twitter or Linkedin, etc) to help your business ?

Currently, we use Facebook and Linkedin as we can see the value that the whole social media space can offer and intend to get more involved in this medium by hiring a social media guru to take over this element of the business.

What is your ambition for the busi-ness?

We want to set a new standard in the delivery of exams and invigila-tion services. We want to minimise the fear and stress that exam candi-dates can sometimes feel. Our spe-cifically designed and ultra-modern facilities offer the testing candidate a comfortable, noise and distraction- free environment.

What is the best piece of business advice you ever received?

Take baby steps, listen to those who have walked a similar road and gain knowledge from their experiences. don’t be afraid to ask for help. it is okay not to know everything and to admit to it. Most importantly, don’t give up.

linda HenneSSey, tHe exam centre

event raises €3k to help women Dress for Success

Sodexo Ireland’s Womenwork organising team of (l/r)

Gillian Stafford, Deirdre Saunders, Niamh Cray and

Margaret Clapham with Sonya Lennon

faShion: lookinG the part when applyinG for jobS

insurance made simpleContinued from last week

The key things to remember with insurance are:• it is easy to end up buying insurance you don’t need and not buying insurance you probably do need. use a reliable financial adviser or your common sense (or both) to help you.• it is a ruthlessly competitive market. shop around before you buy any cover. shop around before you renew cover. Keep checking prices for cover that doesn’t have an annual renewal date, too.• There are lots of ways to bring insurance premiums down, ways that won’t necessarily mean less cover. seems silly not to exploit them, really, doesn’t it?

it is an awful pity that Woody allen typified the dread

of most people when it comes to insurance – my worst nightmare is being stuck in a lift with an insurance salesman. Today, apart from the thousands of men and women in the industry who are there to serve your needs, the technology superhighway means you don’t even need to meet one, let alone in a lift !

Contact john with your money questions at jlowe@moneydoc-

tor.ie or visit his website at www.moneydoctor.ie. john lowe, fel-

low of the institute of bankers, is founder and managing director

of Money Doctor

advice on style and how to make the best impression by dressing for success.

not only does dress for success give women pro-fessional clothing so that they look the part when applying for jobs but it also supports their career development through networking and advice.

Founded in 1996 by nancy Lublin and three nuns in spanish Harlem in new York, dress for success now has 20 bases around the world and the latest one in dublin was started by sonya Len-non.

The organisation relies on donations of cash and clothing to survive. it is partnered by arnotts and Marks and spencers and donations of clothing can be made by drop-ping them into arnotts on Henry street and all clothing donations must be interview appropriate.

Funding

Last year sonya was awarded The arthur guinness Fund award which recognises social entrepreneurs, for her ini-tiative in setting up dress for success. she was one of 10 social entrepreneurs to receive the special two-

year funding which varies in size from €50,000 to €100,000.

she hopes to develop a national grid of dress for success offices within the next 10 years.

sonya is on the Board of the Crafts Council of ireland and has started a f ledgling designer clothes label of her own along with fellow Off the rails presenter, Brendan Courtney, called Len-non Courtney which is, according to sonya, dis-tinctive yet understated.

To find out more about dress for success,visit www.dressforsuccess-dublin.org


Earthbound success for focused actor rob heiGh

THIS weekend sees the release of a new Irish comedy film, Earthbound, that features an array of local connections.

The film is shot on location in Dublin, with an array of local talent that includes Dartry native Stephen Hogan, an acclaimed actor who has a huge number of roles under his belt in film, tel-evision and theatre in Ire-land, Britain and beyond.

The film features Hot Fuzz and Life Of Pi star Rafe Spall in the lead role as an everyman with a difference – he’s the sole surviving son of Zalaxon, a world embroiled in endless rebellion against invading aliens.

His girlfriend, Maria, played by Belfast actress Jenn Murray, thinks he simply has a nerdy inter-est in sci-fi, until she starts to see the signs of an interstellar conspiracy at play.

Out & About spoke to

Stephen last week about his role in the movie, and his work on stage and screen, and we started by talking about Earth-bound.

“Earthbound is a comedy that works on a number of levels.

“It’s a homage to comic

books and sci-fi, the things [writer and director] Alan Brennan loves, and it’s a really clever take on that, all shot in and around Dublin city centre.

“I play Rafe’s phsychia-trist, who he is referred to by Jenn, because he’s demonstrating bizarre behaviour and saying incredible things about being an alien. You end

up asking: ‘Is it all a fan-tasy, or is it real?’ It’s great fun.”

The cast also features some immense talent, including Carrie Crowley, Ned Dennehy, and Doc-tor Who and The Walking Dead star, David Morris-sey.

Stephen says his first love is the theatre, most recently treading the boards in Dublin in Joe Dowling’s production of The Field at the Gaiety, where he acted opposite Hollywood giant Brian Dennehy, and he spoke about where the urge to be an actor came from.

“Like many kids, I had an inspirational English teacher, Greg Collins, at Sandford Park School in Ranelagh.

“I did Waiting For Godot when I was 14, and the theatricality of it touched me in some way.

“I was sure I was going to need a ‘proper’ career and trained as an archi-tect, in Greenwich and Edinburgh.

Dartry native Stephen hogan: “it’s hard for young actors to get a grounding to build

a career – you need opportunities to come your way, and also work very, very hard”

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Petscan you GiVe couraGeous chris a new hoMe?The Gazette Newspaper has teamed up with Dogs Trust to help find homes for unwanted and abandoned dogs.

Our Dog of the Week this week is courageous Chris, a 14-year-old Labrador.

This wise old boy has had his fair share of hard luck in the past, and we’re hoping that’s all about to change for him.

Despite his age, Chris is an energetic boy who loves going for walks, big cuddles and affection!

he would need an understanding owner who spends quite a lot of time at home, as Chris’s owner went away three years ago, and left him tied up in the garden with no food, which left him needing lots of TLC.

This brave boy would ideally go to a quiet forever home with no other dogs, kids or cats; one with plenty of cuddly toys and a fine big sofa to pan out on.

Although Chris has a wonky tail, a blind right eye, and a body which may not be in the best of nick through lack of nutrition, this hasn’t stopped this darling dog from being able to forgive and truly love people.

If you think you could offer Chris the loving home he so truly deserves then please contact Dogs Trust at 01 879 1000.

“While at Edinburgh Uni, I got involved in the student drama scene. The standard was high and we competed for audiences at the festival, and people who were thinking about pursuing a career in act-ing were attracted to the scene as well.

“I decided to audition for the three best drama schools, and if I didn’t get in, I always had architec-ture to fall back on.

“But I got a place in the Royal Scottish Academy in Glasgow, and every-thing flowed from there. Architecture’s loss, and all that!”

Landing a role in Scot-tish television soap, Take The High Road (imag-

ine a Scottish Glenroe), Stephen saw his career take off in Scotland as well, and roles on stage and the small screen have come his way ever since.

He has appeared in Fair City and The Tudors, as well as an array of pres-tigious productions on the stage in Ireland and across Britain.

However, he sees it as being hard for young actors to make the break-through in the same way he achieved.

“The experiences and opportunities for young actors are getting harder and harder to come by. I was extraordinarily lucky – there was one stage [in my life] when I was work-

ing on Fair City during the day, performing at The Gate in the evening, and rehearsing for The Abbey in the meantime.

“I had three jobs, and it was an amazing time. But I think an actor’s career goes in phases, and it’s tougher now than it ever was.

“There are so many schools, and the feeling that things can happen very quickly – but actu-ally it doesn’t happen quickly.

“It’s hard for young actors to get a ground-ing to build a career – you need experience and opportunities to come your way, and also work very, very hard.”

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POP’S very own good-girl-gone-bad,

Rihanna, revealed her debut clothing line

for River Island at London Fashion Week

(LFW) last month, and the coveted threads

recently debuted at Ireland’s flagship River

Island store in Dublin.

There were high hopes and expectations

from fashion critics but just like the star,

she came into the fashion world with some

controversy. She was nearly an hour late for

her nine-minute show (a big no-no in the fashion world)

and there was growing anticipation among the crowd,

which included RiRi’s new best friend, model and socialite,

Cara Delevingne.

Heavily-inspired by urban 90s style, incorporating

a new twist on dungarees, revealing mesh croptops,

and baggy jumpsuits, Rihanna’s line might not be for

everyone, but she did admit she choose a collection

that she would wear – which explains the stage-like

attire.

Black floral trousers, which are on trend, are

teamed with a bandeau top and appear more like

swimwear. Her vamped-up street wear is quite a

casual look, with no tailoring and some unusual shapes.

This isn’t Rihanna’s first encounter with the fashion

world, with previous collaborations with Armani Jeans

– which mainly consisted of cute t-shirts, jeans and

statement leather jackets – which seems more in tune

with her personal style.

She wears clothes stunningly well, infusing her own

unique style in each outfit, but, unfortunately, the pop

goddess was unable to evoke emotion or present any

distinct style that we usually see her photographed in.

Some fashion risk-takers will look at the collection

with excitement, but the ordinary girl-next-door might

need a little more time to adjust to Ri-Ri’s eccentric style.

That said, we’ll all still find our way to the fitting rooms

to see if there is something we can wear from Rihanna’s

collection. Available at River Island stores now.

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PUT a spring in your step with an explosion of colourful floral notes that offer an uplifting effect perfect for energising the body and mind.

Roger & Gallet presents Fleur d’Osmanthus - The Essence of Spring. This refreshing scent is concentrated in rare natural essences and essen-tial oils which are joyous, delicious and refreshing for the spring months ahead.

According to Roger & Gallet, it takes two years for the osmanthus shrub to grow tiny clusters of apricot-coloured flowers, which reveal a cas-cade of gourmet floral notes. Mixed with a juicy apricot scent, it has a stress-reducing and uplifting effect.

Roger & Gallet - Fleur d’Osmanthus 100ml RRP €39.75 is available from pharmacies nationwide. The fra-grance is also available in a shower gel, body lotion, travel soap, liquid soap and a 30ml version.

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STYLIST and TV per-sona l i t y, Cour tney Smith, is teaming up with Galaxy to show-case their newest advert which features Holly-wood icon Audrey Hep-burn and her fabulous 1950s style.

Just like Audrey, the Galaxy girl is confident and empowered and knows what she wants. This is why Galaxy asked Malahide resi-dent, Courtney, to be the campaign ambassa-dor, as she ticks all the boxes. She is a self-made success and is taking the Irish fashion world by storm with regular con-tributions on Xpose and Ireland AM.

This week, Gazette Style talked to her about her involvement in the campaign, the 1950s style making a come-back and also what key trends should be lining our wardrobes this sea-son.

“It’s no secret I’m a huge fan of Galaxy, whenever anyone asks what is your guilty pleas-ure? I am like – it’s a bar of Galaxy,” she laughed.

“Audrey Hepburn is the style icon in the new ad and they really want-ed to collaborate with someone in the Irish fashion industry too, who they said has the same attributes. In that I am young, busy working woman and I love fash-

ion and style – they just thought the two married really well.

“I was delighted when they told me it was all around iconic 1950s style and Audrey Hep-burn. When I first spoke with them they asked do I think it’s dated, I said ‘no’ because, just like chocolate, she is the type of icon that doesn’t really eliminate anyone.

“She was a bit of a tomboy so the girls who aren’t into pretty little dresses would still love her and she is a huge movie star, and she has that girly aspect, too.

“She is also known for being really intelligent

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and quirky, so I think loads of different people, even now, can still relate to her.

Since being part of the campaign, Courtney has enjoyed researching the style and started watch-ing all Audrey’s movies. “It is funny how styles come full circle, it is actually a big trend at the moment. The way shirts are tied and the A-Line skirts, the Mac coats and all that sort of stuff, so I love revisiting it all.

According to Court-ney, Audrey’s style is timeless.

“Looking at what she wore back then, the classic little black dress,

the trench coat, the striped t-shirt with little cropped jeans – everything she wore is so dress-able now and we see it everywhere, its almost impossible to avoid so she is timeless - a really great style role model.

Being from Mala-hide, she said people are “pretty up there in the style stakes” and as for Dublin street style, she said that’s were she gets a lot of inspiration from.

“I love people watch-ing and seeing how, stu-dents especially, inter-pret styles because they will always put their own

kind of quirky take on a trend that a magazine might not have thought of, or a catwalk might not have thought of. I always find that really interesting,” she told Gazette Style.

This season, she said there is a lot of stripe, monochrome and bold prints. “Bold colours but simple shapes, which is great because you can find things that fit you really well, but you’re still being on trend,” she added.

See the new ad at www.galaxychocolate.co.uk/

little cropped jeans – kind of quirky take on a

FRENCH skincare luxury comes to Har-vey Nichols with the opening of Sisley skincare and cosmetics.

The family business was first creat-ed in 1976 and is now widely known for its application of botanical essences to cosmetology. Sisley offers a com-plete range of products for face, body, sun care, hair care and make-up.

It is also renowned for its fine fra-grances - Eau du Soir, Soir de Lune, Eau de Campagne and Les Eaux de Sis-ley - which have taken their place in the world of undeniable great classics

Sisley products are of the highest quality, with no consideration of cost or time in their development. The for-mulas are synergies of plant extracts, resulting in extremely high perform-ing and unique combinations.

The UK and Ireland operation, based in Knightsbridge, is run by Christine d’Ornano, international vice presi-dent and daughter of Sisley’s owners Hubert and Isabelle d’Ornano.

Christine d’Ornano says of the launch: “We are very excited that Sisley will now be available in Harvey Nichols, Dundrum as we have had much demand for our products in this area.”

French skincare luxury Sisley comes to Harvey Nichols in DundrumGalaxy girls: Campaign stylist and ambassador Courtney Smith (Centre) with

models, Nadia Forde (left) and Rebecca Maguire (right) and timeless and always

stylish Audrey Hepburn (right)

Don’t forget to send in your style question for our Style Q&A with Littlewoods Ireland Ambassador, Caroline Morahan. The Star Question will win €50 voucher for Littlewoods Ireland. Email [email protected] The next Q&A is out March 28.

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TheatretHe pavilioN tHeatRe 01 231 2929the Fiddler on the RoofTHIS show has enduring popularity with unforgettable songs such as If I were a Rich Man and Matchmaker. It won nine Tony awards and there is the memorable film adaptation. This presentation will be in the hands of DMDS whose award-winning cast look forward to leading you and your family through this much loved show. March 18-23, tickets are priced at €20/€18.

DRaiocHt 01 885 2622Battle of the BandsAFTER a successful first year, Miniature Jack will be hosting a second local Battle of the Bands and it promises to be as good as the last! This heat will showcase some of our local, young talent with performances from Carmine, Ryan Bhasker and The Tracks. Miniature Jack will also be performing on the night. March 22, tickets are priced at €8.

Mill tHeatRe 01 296 9340Female of the SpeciesFEMALE of the Species is more deadly than the male… A fascinating study of the female species, with some hilarious discoveries. Fresh from her performances in New York, Amy De Bhrún delights with her rapier wit and whirlwind of comedy characters. Catch the show from March 22 and 23, tickets are priced at €20/€18.

A BROKEN City; a cor-rupt political system and a battle for justice.

Broken City has a fantastic line-up, from Mark Wahlberg to Rus-sell Crowe to Catherine Zeta-Jones. But although the film keeps your atten-tion throughout, some of the subplots and scenes make the story quite “broken”.

We first meet NYC cop Billy Taggart (Wahlberg) when he is being acquit-ted of murder charges of a man who raped and killed a girl. Fast forward to seven years later, and Taggart is dating the mur-dered girl’s sister. He has also left the NYC police force, and is working as a paparazzi-style private detective with his assist-ant Katy, in which he is hired to follow cheating spouses and produce photographic evidence. However they find it dif-ficult to receive payment on time from their cli-

Slightly broken

ents. One day Taggart is

approached by his old acquaintance, the Mayor of New York Nicholas Hostetler (Crowe), to fol-low his wife (Zeta-Jones) who he alleges is hav-ing an affair. The mayor offers Taggart $50,000 for photographic evidence because since he is up for re-election, he believes that her infidelity can damage his credibility during his campaign.

Taggart agrees and car-ries out the job, but some-how the mayor’s wife seeks him out and offers him $25,000 to stop working for him. Taggart refuses as he is bound to the mayor’s contract, but

becomes shocked when the man in question is found shot dead shortly afterwards. He soon dis-covers that the man and the mayor’s wife were in fact just good friends, and had information about the mayor’s corrupt plan to invest in a multi-billion dollar housing project deal, which could dam-age his election cam-paign. Taggart then seeks to achieve justice.

So that’s an interesting storyline with an interest-ing twist. But this is when things start to go wrong. Meanwhile as all of this is going on, Taggart’s girl-friend, who is an actress,

is starring in a new indie film, and her friendship with a fellow actor sparks his jealousy and anger.

To make things more complicated, Taggart had a drink problem, so when he reacted badly to the new movie she starred in by drinking heavily, they fall out and she leaves him.

You hope for a rec-onciliation, but you are left disappointed as she totally disappears from the rest of the film.

You then expect chem-istry to form between Taggart and Katy because she is young and flirty, but you question why that

doesn’t happen either. In short, you will be left frustrated that no further romance takes place.

On top of that, the film only touched on the fact that Taggart used to have a drink problem. Apart from when he fell out with his girlfriend, there are no further references to his drink problem, so you are also left wonder-ing why and how it was possible for him to not encounter further drink-related problems and continue to be a serious and sober detective.

If Broken City left out these extra subplots and concentrated solely on the main plot, it would have come out stronger. Although it cleverly por-trays the corrupt and unjust political system and the people within it, the subplots only com-plicate things, and the inclusion of too many characters makes the story broken.

Russell Crowe and Jeffrey Wright lay down the law to Mark Wahlberg’s cop

Review: waHlBeRG aND cRowe StaR iN tHiS RuN-oF-tHe-Mill tHRilleR

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oUR VeRDiCt:IT would be inaccurate to call this a bad film, but it would be equally as wrong to call it brilliant. Despite the pedigree of the cast and crew, Broken City leaves too many strands loose and too few questions answered. Most definitely worth a watch, but if you’re not a big fan of those involved, wait for the DVD.

Director: allen HughesStarring: Mark Wahlberg, Russel Crowe, Catherine zeta-Jones, Jeffrey Wright

Film OF The Week: Broken cityh h h (15a) 109 mins

of gaming, now found eve-rywhere.

Last but not least, one of gaming’s true titans – the legendary games designer and Valve studio head Gabe Newell – was presented with a highly-prestigious BAFTA Fel-lowship, in light of his vision and personal con-

tribution to gam-ing.

It’s no harm to p o i n t out that

N e w e l l r e m a i n s

acclaimed as a thoroughly

nice and decent guy, too, as well as

being an acclaimed visionary.

While many non-gamers couldn’t pick him out of a bus queue, Newell’s legendary pas-sion for gaming, charm, astute business acumen and inspirational leader-ship made him a deserv-ing winner of the rarely-awarded BAFTA title.

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on the night, Journey was a worthy winner for Sony, with the highly stylised PlayStation 3 title creating an emotive connection with many gamers.

There were several other categories, too, presenting well-deserved BAFTAs to a wide range of titles, all of which underlined the sheer scope

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THIS year’s BAFTAs had some pretty interesting choices to consider for its increasingly diverse games section, with the London ceremony high-lighting some terrific titles, with just a couple of curious wins, too.

While, as ever, the past 12 months has seen all manner of troubles and economic woes sweep through the games indus-try, with countless thou-sands of job losses, doz-ens of studio closures and the end of lots and lots of franchises, at the same time, lots of terrific games were released.

Best Game saw some predictable choices, but the critic’s favourite, Dis-honored (no, no “u”) was a clear favourite, with its compelling mix of stealth, action and a richly fleshed

out setting of a pseudo-Dickensian world making it a must-have for many.

For Story, Dishonored lost out to The Walking Dead, with its shiny new BAFTA just the latest tro-phy to clutch to its rotting chest, having previously grabbed a clutch of Game Of The Year awards, as well as many nods that it was “as good as the TV show” – not bad going for an adventure title, in a genre long seen to be as dead as its Walkers.

Performer was an interesting category, but

BAFTAS: TOP GAMING WINNERS NAMED

A crowning moment for many titles

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one that was very deserv-ing of attention, given the subtle yet increas-ing importance of good scripts – delivered by good actors, or voiceover artists – to many hit titles.

While, personally, I thought Adrian Hough’s snootily wicked Hay-tham in Assassin’s Creed III was a stand-out audio performance, judges plumped for the rather less well-known title, Thomas Was Alone, showing that safe bets aren’t necessarily a sure thing at awards ...

Game Design was a wide open field, however, with everything from graphics to gameplay, presentation to, well, fun to consider, with a dispa-rate selection of titles to consider.

However, picking up yet another one of its awards

GAME OVER FOR 1UP.COMPlug is pulled on a 10-year-old gaming websiteTHE chill winds of the recession continue to swirl around, with online media platforms feeling their icy pinch just as much as their hard-copy counterparts.

This being so, 1up.com is the latest such domino to tumble, as the long-standing gaming website has been shut – oh, it’s still running, and still has a number of features yet to be uploaded, but the site is effectively now shut, and locked into an irreversible death spiral, as its parent company has chosen it, and a number of other sites, to be closed, preferring to divert assets elsewhere.

While many readers won’t have heard of 1up.com before, it belongs (belonged?) to a cadre of games websites that offer (or offered, in its case) a pretty diverse range of content, covering everything from the the art of creativity within games, key industry movers and shakers, retro reviews of long-lost classics, insight into key titles, reviews and previews and so on, giving them a wide-ranging scope.

In a world where gaming gets scant coverage in mainstream print media – if at all – the fact that it’s now game over for 1.1up.com is something to regret ...

BYTES&PIECES

CLOSED

Gabe Newell doesn’t actually wear a gold crown at

a jaunty angle – but if he did, that would be totally

okay, as the legendary games designer, studio head

and, now, BAFTA Fellowship member, remains one of

the most influential (and coolest) figures in gaming

Some of the main categories and winners from the 2013 BAFTA Gaming Awards

BEST GAME• Journey• FIFA 13• The Walking Dead• Mass Effect 3• Far Cry 3• WINNER Dishonored

ACTION• Borderlands 2• Call of Duty: Black Ops 2• Halo 4• Hitman: Absolution• Mass Effect 3• WINNER Far Cry 3

STORY• Dishonored• Far Cry 3• Journey• Mass Effect 3• Thomas Was Alone• Development Team• WINNER The Walking Dead

PERFORMER• Adrian Hough (Haytham), Assassin’s Creed III• Dave Fennoy (Lee Everett), The Walking Dead• Melissa Hutchison (Clementine), The Walking Dead• Nigel Carrington (The Narrator), Dear Esther

• Nolan North (Nathan Drake), Uncharted: Golden Abyss• WINNER Danny Wallace (The Narrator), Thomas

Was Alone

ARTISTIC ACHIEVEMENT• Halo 4• Borderlands 2• Dear Esther• Far Cry 3• The Room• WINNER Journey

AUDIO ACHIEVEMENT• Assassin’s Creed III

• Beat Sneak Bandit• Dear Esther• Far Cry 3• Halo 4• WINNER Journey

GAME DESIGN• The Walking Dead• Dishonored• Far Cry 3• Borderlands 2• XCOM: Enemy Unknown• WINNER Journey

All in all, the awards were pretty spot-on, celebrating a diverse crop of gaming talents

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MOTORS

Current Passat is best incarnation of car to daten CorMaC Curtis

I must admit that when VW gave their Passat a much-needed revamp in 2005, I was mightily impressed.

they took a very ordinary looking car – which was, in many ways, the poorer and far more boring cousin of the Audi A4 and lifted it to another level. so much so, in fact, that I even considered buy-ing a used model a few years ago.

the only problem, I felt, was that the won-derfully designed exte-rior, with its new mus-cular stance and strong, striking grille and head-light combination, was very much let down by an interior that lacked the luxury that the overall look seemed to promise.

the good news is that VW have clearly seen the error of their ways and have given the Pas-sat the changes it so richly deserved.

Not only does the car now boast all of VW’s latest design elements, including the four chrome bar grille and “angry” looking head-lights with eye-catching LEDs, the body con-tours and overall look give the car a more executive saloon feel than ever before.

For my money, the inside does what so many of the current batch of VW, Audi and skoda models do so well, it wraps the driver in a cocoon of confi-dence.

the materials used in the cockpit are just so solid and reassuring,

the build quality is everything you would expect from

the VW group

volkswaGen: points missed for a few fairly anonymous features

the thick leather steer-ing wheel, the gearshift, door handles – all have the weight and feel of quality elements.

the space afforded in the cockpit is also more than just a little gener-ous, easily giving my own rather bulky frame plenty of room.

so, is this car head-ing into my top five of the year? Well, unfortu-nately, not yet.

It might seem silly, but a few poorly chosen fea-tures picked as standard at the expense of others can really sway how special a car feels – and when a car’s starting price is €26,495, well, it should feel special with-out spending a penny on extra options.

Leaving aside the fact that the metallic paint on the model I tested was a €668 extra, it does actually have some impressive features

as standard, includ-ing cruise control, the leather steering wheel with stylish aluminium inserts, fatigue detec-tor, electric windows all round, a natty hill-hold control to assist on the dreaded hill starts, a start/stop system with recuperat ion, f ront and rear fog lights with chrome trim as well as 16” stylish steel wheels.

Nobody will argue that there isn’t plenty of practical, useful, inno-vative features included here, but they’re all a little anonymous.

Pe r sona l l y, e ven though I spend a lot of time driving up and down to Cork on the motorway, I haven’t used cruise control on a car in about a decade.

I would happily trade the cruise feature for audio controls on the steering wheel or Blue-tooth connectivity (to

Skoda confirms launch date for new Octavia sKODA has confirmed the launch date of the new Octavia. From march 19 Annesley Williams skoda, Cloghran, Autostation, sandyford and Pilsen Auto Ltd, Ballymount will be marking the arrival of the new Octavia with exciting open week events. unveiled internationally late last year, the new Octavia is offered with three dif-ferent specification variants, both manual and automatic transmission options and five engine alternatives with prices from €18,995.

the Octavia impresses with cabin and luggage capacity, innovative 5* NCAP safety, modern new comfort features, low fuel consumption and a new range of touch screen audio and navigation systems.

Originally launched in Ireland back in 1998, the Octavia has become a firm favourite with Irish motorists with more than 40,600 Octavia’s sold to the end of 2012. Now as skoda enters its 20th anniversary in Ireland, the third generation Octa-via will see it challenge not only direct competi-tors in the medium family segment but thanks to its proportions challenge vehicles in the executive saloon class.

the new Octavia has grown significantly in length and width, the new model is 90mm longer and 45mm wider than the outgoing Octavia. the wheelbase has grown by 108mm enabling the Octavia break the mould for spaciousness in its model segment with interior length (1,782mm), more knee room (73mm) and more headroom at the back (980mm) as well as best in class boot volume of 590 litres.

the new Octavia is powered by the latest low emission tsI petrol engines as well as common rail diesel engines with stop start technology for excellent fuel economy.

Commenting on the launch of the new Octa-via in Ireland, Raymond Leddy, head of market-ing, skoda Ireland said: “We have increased specification levels for all versions of the new Octavia. Additional airbags, electronic stabil-ity control for increased safety and stop start technology for reduced emissions and improved fuel economy are now standard features across the range.

“stylish alloy wheels are now offered on all models with the exception of the entry Active model. In dimension terms the new Octavia is wider and has grown in length by 9cm allowing for increased cabin space and luggage capacity.

“Despite this growth the new Octavia has in fact shed up to 100kg in weight compared to its predecessor. Less weight equates to better fuel economy and the new Octavia in its 1.6-tDI ver-sion consumes only 3.8 litres for every 100km travelled.”

NOISEroad

be fair, the stereo is top-class, has eight speakers and does have an aux-in for music).

the hill-hold feature is a nice touch, but any-one who has passed their driving test will be well versed in hill starts – a better option would be parking distance sensors.

I don’t have figures to back up this particular assertion, but I suspect a lot more damage occurs to cars each year with

parking manoeuvres than cars rolling back-wards (but I’m open to correction on that one!)

the current Passat is the best incarnation of the car to date, the build quality is every-thing you would expect from the VW group, the performance is pleasing and the comfort-level is typical of the marque – a little tweak or two would simply make it feel more worthy of the price tag.

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LAST month, I wrote somewhat gushingly about David Bowie’s Where Are We Now?, the lead track from his new album, The Next Day. It raised as many questions as it answered, pa ramoun t among which was, would the album be anything like the single, and would his return be a retread of former glories or some-thing entirely new?

I’m here to report that the album is very much like the single, in that it is haltingly amaz-ing from start to finish, and that The Next Day is both a call-back and a leap forward.

To hear that Bowie was coming back was heartening in itself, and the elegiac, fractured beauty of his vocal on Where Are We Now?

made one wonder if this would be an instance where the intense the-atricality of his previous greatest moments would be drawn aside, and we would see a stately, per-sonal and confessional style seldom before employed in his peerless four decade career.

So from the first snare kick to the first chorus of the title track that leads off the album, we’re assured this is no ambient, string-laden stroll. This is a pounding, rocking, vital Bowie - never mind the

rumours — as he sings on The Next Day, “Here I am, not quite dead...”

He’s a long way from dead, believe me.

If you were to sit down and construct your ulti-mate Bowie comeback record, it would be The Next Day. There are all the musical elements that you associate with the finest moments of his career on show - Tony Visconti’s glitter-ing production, rolling basslines (courtesy of the remarkable Gail Ann Dorsey and Tony Levin from Peter Gabri-el’s band), honking sax, choppy rhythm guitar courtesy of Earl Slick and that voice.

Unbowed by time, Bowie is on awesome vocal form. Rumours of ill health and fading form are blown away

with each track featur-ing a strong perform-ance.

The fragile and beau-tiful Where Are We Now? is utterly con-founded throughout, and the only tragedy of this record is that it is unlikely that Bowie will bring the songs on the road. It would be an immense joy to hear them alongside his clas-sic tunes of yesteryear, and a lesson in musical class to show how unim-peachably these new tracks stand alongside the greats.

Stripped of its distract-ingly bananas video, The Stars (Are Out Tonight) is an incredible track, and the bass mountain that is Love Is Lost rum-bles to a satisfying close. The power pop of (You) Set The World On Fire

is instantly memorable, and closer Heat is an elemental, dramatic seal on possibly the best 53 minutes of music you’ll hear this year.

There are nods to the past as well as a reach for the future here - The Next Day is unmistak-ably Bowie, for all the reasons ment ioned above, but there is an ambition at play that comfortably shows that this is no facile return to the stage — the inven-tion and playfulness, the creativity and musicality show that any comeback was always going to be this epic from an artist who has always been at the vanguard of his craft and not just streets ahead but in a different city entirely to his peers. And that remains ever so.

review: david bowie’s return is a lesson in music and class

Once and future duke

FASTtunes

with Radio Nova’s Dee Woods

IF YOU think the number one Rory in Ireland is a rocker, not a golfer, then I’ve just the thing for you.

Guitar legend Rory Gallagher would have been 65 this month, had we not lost him in 1995.

The G Man may be gone, but he’s very much not forgotten. Officials in Rory’s home-town of Ballyshannon in Donegal are cur-rently testing the foundations ahead of the influx of music fans from all over the world for the Rory Gallagher International Tribute Festival this summer.

Now in its 12th year, the four-day event promises to rock the town with music, exhibi-tions, and 25 top acts, all ready to salute the guitar legend from open air concerts to pub sessions.

Former members of Rory’s bands, including Gerry McAvoy and Brendan O’Neill, will be picking up their guitars and drumsticks once again to pay homage to the late musician, while well-known faces like Mama’s Boys’ guitarist Pat McManus(the nicest man in rock!) and Andy Powell of Wishbone Ash will also be performing at the festival.

It’s happening from Thursday, May 30 to Sunday, June 2 - all the details can be found at www.rorygallagherfestival.com.

If it’s a rock pilgrimage you’re looking for, you won’t be disappointed. But if you can’t wait that long to rock out in Rory’s memory, this Saturday (March 16) An Evening of Rory’s Music in sound and vision is taking place in The Mezz Bar in Temple Bar from 7.30pm.

The night aims to bring Rory’s music back to life alongside images on big screens around the venue. Tickets are a tenner, and there’s good advice from the organisers: checked shirts not required, air guitar essential.

MUSIC

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Roaring rock for Rory at Ballyshannon fest

David Bowie, tilda Swinton and friends on the set of the video for the Stars (Are Out tonight)

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Easter breakoffers: treat yourself with a fun day out or a weekend getaway

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Ireland’s Blue Book featuring great offers for Easter

advice : topflight

For those hoping to make the most of their Easter weekend this year without packing up the family for an overnight trip, Strokestown Park in Co ros-common will be hosting an egg’stra special Easter Sunday this year with an action-packed Family fun day on the cards.

A day filled with fun and games for the whole family will be held at the park’s idyllic six-acre walled garden from 12 noon until 5pm on Sunday, March 31.

For an entry fee of just €10 per child and €3 for adults, guests can enjoy everything from live pup-pet shows, bouncing castles and face-painting to craft workshops, live music performances and an exciting Easter egg hunt.

Tickets are available online at www.strokes-townpark.ie or by calling 071 9633013.

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cork pulling out all the stops for fun and games

visit: don’t miss out on activities down south

CounTy Cork is pulling out all the stops when it comes to the Easter bank holiday weekend this year, making it one desti-nation you won’t want to miss out on visiting!

rumley’s open Farm will be hosting its much anticipated Easter hunt, offering children the chance to spot the Easter Bunny during a 2km long Easter egg hunt.

Located just minutes from Cork City centre, the whole family will have the chance to meet loads of animals who live on the farm, as well as hav-ing the chance to see the Easter Bunny in his own rabbit Village. With a sand play area, crazy golf and go-kart track, there is plenty for the whole fam-ily to enjoy!

your little bunnies will love a trip to the Glucks-man Gallery, where they can take part in an East-er art club. From paint-ing to drawing, sculp-ture and collage, these fun, hands-on courses are great for kids aged between five- and eight-years-old. The Easter art club runs between April 1 and 5.

Already a firm favourite with all age groups, Fota Wildlife Park will also be hosting a special Easter Egg Trail this Easter, on Saturday March 30. Their annual Easter Activity Camp also takes place from Wednesday, April 3 to Friday, April 5.

Already well known from its annual visit to Dublin, Funderland, the largest travelling theme

park in Europe, will also be arriving in Cork on March 22.

With lots to do during the day, the river Lee Hotel is the ideal place to rest your head, with the hotel offering some great packages to tie in with the city’s Easter celebra-tions.

Located in the heart of Cork City, the Easter Family Package at the river Lee Hotel is priced at just €159 per night and includes one night’s accommodation for two adults and two children, with a full Irish breakfast, 20% off spa treatments, free kiddies pack, chil-

dren’s afternoon tea on Easter Sunday and great Easter activities with the head chef. you can avail of this offer from March 30 to April 1 inclusive.

For further information and booking, visit www.doylecollection.com/cork or email [email protected]

Spend an idyllic weekend in Strokestown Park

ESCAPE to Croatia for an Easter break with a dif-ference this year, with a little help from Concorde Travel. Having just slashed the prices for their Easter holidays, current special offers range from the three-star Antuninska Apartments in the old Town of Dubrovnik from just €399 per person, to luxurious hotels such as the five-star Dubrovnik Palace, from €599pp.

Depart from Dublin on March 24 and spend seven nights at the Antuninska Apartments for just €449 per person, based on four people sharing a one bedroom apartment, or stay at the four-star Hotel Lapad in Dubrovnik on a B&B basis for just €599 per person.

Depart from Dublin on March 29 and spend seven nights at the three-star Hotel Kompas in Dubrovnik for just €449 per person, or stay at the four-star Hotel Grand Park and Villas on a B&B basis, also for €449 per person. or step it up a notch and treat yourself to a stay at the five-star Hotel Dubrovnik Palace on a B&B basis for just €599 per person.

Travel on March 31 and spend seven nights at the four-star Hotel Lapad for just €499 or spend your break at the five-star Hotel Croatia in Cavtat for just €599 per person.

For more information or to book, visit www.concordetravel.ie, email [email protected] or phone (01) 775 9300.

Escape to Croatia with help from Concorde Travel

there is plenty to do for kids of all ages in Cork this Easter

While Easter is seen as a celebration of all things indulgent, sometimes

there is more to the holiday than just chocolate eggs. And what better way

to treat yourself than to hop off on a well-deserved break from everyday life!

Whether it is to take part in a massive egg hunt in Cork, to enjoy a family fun day

out with the Easter Bunny or to fly abroad to make the most of your bank holiday

weekend, we’ve rounded up some of the best getaways on offer this month

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Crystal Ski are offering a perfect excuse to make the most of the final opportunities to hit the slopes this season

GAZETTETRAVELBig house holidays for the stay at home vacationerIF YOU fancy making the most of your Easter break this year, Ireland’s Blue Book are featuring some great getaway offers which are sure to help make our decisions a little easier.

Enjoy a two-night stay in Rathsallagh House, Co Wicklow this Easter from just €169 per per-son sharing. Enjoy an award winning breakfast each morning as well as dinner on the Friday night.

The package also includes a Lily O’Brien Easter egg as well as dis-count vouchers to spend at Kildare Retail Village and Newbridge Silver-ware. Add unlimited golf for just €40 per person.

Luxurious

Or stay at the luxuri-ous Mount Juliet Coun-try Estate in Co Kil-kenny, for a two-night break from just €204 per person sharing. The package includes two nights’ bed and break-fast as well as a three-course dinner on the evening of your choice. The offer is available from March 30 until April 1, 2013.

For more information or to book, visit www.irelands-blue-book.ie/easter_offers.

IF you’re hoping your Easter egg hunt will lead you straight to a holiday abroad this year, Gohop.ie have a great choice of getaways to help you find your way.

Whether it’s a fun-filled fam-ily holiday or a relaxing break by the beach, breaks from Gohop.ie start from just €185 per person.

Travel to the Algarve on March 24 and spend seven nights at the three-star Albu-feira Jardim Hotel on a self-catering basis from €213 per person, or spend four nights at the three-star Albir Gar-den Resort in Alicante, on a self-catering basis from just €292 per person, travelling on March 26.

Travel with GoHop.ie to Majorca on March 27 and spend three nights at the three-star Mirablau on a room-only basis from only €185 per per-son. Price includes return flights from Cork. Or finally, travel to Malaga for a post-Easter break on April 5 and spend seven nights spoiling yourself at the three-star Posa-

das De Espagna Malaga Hotel on a room-only basis from just €240 per person.

All prices include return flights from Dublin (or Cork, if stated), taxes and charges, and are based on two adults shar-ing.

For more great Easter deals, visit www.gohop.ie/g65/East-er-Holidays.

Hunting for a beach holiday? Plenty to choose from …

AS a measure designed to encourage even more families to go by ferry this year Irish Ferries has launched a Kids Go Free fare offer that can be availed of in Ireland and UK markets throughout the year up until December 20 next.

Applicable to all children under the age of 16, the offer promises to cut the cost of travel from Ireland to Britain when coupled with Irish Ferries’ lead in fare from €89 for a car plus driver, which will also remain valid for the same period.

In line with the company’s Green Carpet under-taking to support the Government’s The Gathering tourism initiative, a similar Kids Go Free low-cost fare arrangement is being marketed by Irish Fer-ries in the UK with the aim of encouraging more families to come to Ireland this year.

To avail of the offer, passengers must book by Tuesday, March 19. Further information and book-ings can be made online at www.irishferries.com or by calling 0818 300 400.

Irish Ferries launch their Kids Go Free fare offer

Hit the slopes one last time before summer hitsWITH the recent arrival of spring, it won’t be long before we start thinking about our summer holi-day destinations. For the moment however, Crys-tal Ski are offering us the perfect excuse this Easter to make the most of our final opportunities to hit the slopes this season.

Travel to Andorra at the heart of the Pyr-enees on March 24 and spend seven nights over the Easter break at the three-star Hotel Pat-agonia in Arinsal. With prices from €1,845 for a

family of four (two adults and two children under the age of 11), the price includes a quad room on a half board basis, as well as return flights from Dublin to Toulouse.

Spend seven nights at the three-star Alpe D’Huez resort of Hori-zons D’Huez Apart-ments when you travel on March 30. The price starts from only €1,959 and is based on two adults and two children sharing (children under the age of 15 years). The price also includes

flights from Dublin to Toulouse, taxes and charges.

Travelling from Dub-lin on March 30, Crys-tal Ski are also offering an option to stay at the four-star Terra Nova Hotel in La Plagne, in a quad room and on a half-board basis from €3,345. Prices include return flights to Toulouse, seven nights’ accommoda-tion as stated, taxes and charges and are based on two adults and two children (under the age of 11) sharing.

Travel to Austria on March 23 and spend seven nights at the two-star Maximillian Bed and Breakfast in Soll from only €1,355. Prices include accommodation on a B&B basis, return flights from Dublin to Innsbruck and are based on two adults and one child (under the age of 11) sharing.

Prices exclude ski hire, lessons and travel insurance. For more information or to book, call 01 4331055 or visit www.crystalski.ie.

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irish cyclinG show: event a huGe success for industry, says promoter

MEtEORs cALL ON cOMMUNIty: METEORS basketball club will host a 6.3km Fun Run and Walk on March 24 in Leop-ardstown racecourse to help raise much needed funds for the club.

The club are encouraging all in the local community to come together and enjoy the event.

Entry for over 16s is €20 and €15 for those under 16, while there is also a €50 family rate for groups of two adults and two U-16s.

Payment can be made either through Meteors online store on www.meteorsbas-ketball.com/apps/webstore.

Registration on the day runs from 9.30am to 11.30am, while there will be refresh-ments and prizegiving in Fillies Cafe and Bar afterwards.

medals and plaudits galore for 2013 irish cycling show ThE IRISh Cycling Show 2013 is over for another year, with exhibitors and attendees alike proclaiming this year’s event a resounding success.

The second running of Ireland’s first and only bicycle expo was held in the new venue of Citywest, which proved popular with exhibitors for its ease of access and exhibition facilities.

Exhibitors reported brisk business on stands, with increased retail activity over the 2012 edition, along with the attendant business to business oppor-tunities offered by having the great and

good of the Irish cycle industry under one roof for the weekend.

Show promoter hugh Bonner of Mara Media affirmed his satisfac-tion with the smooth running of the event which, he says, is now becom-ing a firmly established fixture on the cycling calendar.

“Once again, we delivered an event which has been very well received by the public and the industry,” said Bon-ner. “We’ve been delighted with the positive response to the show which ran without a hitch and provided great

entertainment for cyclists as well as the industry representatives.

“Next year’s show is already well into the planning stages, and we’ve identified a date in March which we’ll confirm shortly.

The show was opened by Ireland’s latest cycling hero, Martyn Irvine, the winner of gold in the World Cycling Championships in Minsk last month. Irvine is back in Ireland training for the road-racing season ahead.

Taking time out from his gruelling schedule, Irvine said: “Being part of

the Irish Cycling Show is awesome, simple! I was a fan from afar last year with the Olympics getting in the way and to be there this year is exciting for me.

“I’ve seen an enormous amount of interest in cycling since I’ve come home and if I can push the message of how brilliant it is all the better. I can’t wait to meet everyone involved.”

Also in attendance was Fran Mee-han, the co-pilot of Paralympics Ire-land’s powerhouse team with Swords’ Catherine Walsh.

Ireland’s world track cycling champion Martyn Irvine and double Paralympic medallist Fran Meehan at the Irish cycling show. Picture: Declan McGrath

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the annual O’Neills Dublin Ladies Gaelic Football Awards took place recently in Croke

Park. The event was a great occa-sion to celebrate the great achieve-ments of such talented and dedicat-

ed athletes who give their commit-ment to club and county. The All-Ireland Minor and Senior B teams of 2012 were presented with their championship medals alongside the Dublin Senior team’s presenta-

tion of their Leinster Champion-ship medals. The Player of the Year Awards were also be announced for Minor, Senior B and Senior. MC on the night was RTe’s sports corre-spondent, Joanne Cantwell.

A night to celebrate excellence in the field

Roisin Ryan, Ballyboden St Enda; Rachel Byrne, Clan Na Gael Fontenoy; Marie Hickey, president of Leinster LGFA; Rachel Dwyer, St

Margaret’s and Leah Caffery, Na Fianna-O’Neills. Pictures: GAApics.com

Shona Barrett and Orla Brennan

Orla Colreavy, Naomh Mearnog; Martina Farrell, Ballyboden

St Enda’s; Marie Kavanagh, tower’s Clondalkin and Cliodhna

O’Connor, Naomh Mearnog

Marie Hickey, president of Leinster

LGFA, gives Dublin Senior B players’

Player of the Year Roisin Ryan,

Ballyboden St Enda’s with her award

Dublin and Ballyboden St Enda’s ladies

legends Martina Farrell and Louise

Kelly

Marie Cahill McBarron, Dublin Senior B and Kilmacud

Crokes, with husband Liam McBarron, Fermanagh

and Kilmacud Crokes

Marie Hickey, president of Leinster LGFA, presents

Dublin Senior captain Gemma Fay with her Leinster

Medal

Kathleen Colreavy presents special recognition

award to Martina Farrell, Ballyboden St Enda’s and

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Many people will have heard the stories of how and when some of the world’s most famous golf-ers started playing. apparently, Rory McIllroy hit a 40-yard drive at the age of two, at the age of three Tiger Woods shot a 48 over nine holes over the Cypress navy course, and at age five, he appeared in Golf Digest. It appears that the ear-lier you learn how to hold a club the quicker you will master the game.

The Smurfit Golf Club at The K Club has junior memberships available for children aged from 12 to 17 years. The membership costs from €350 and there is also a special discounted price for students aged up to 28. a dedicated PGa professional is on hand to train and coach bud-ding golfing stars while regular golf camps and junior competitions will help juniors to hone their skills.

For more information, to enquire about membership of The Smurfit Golf Club call (01) 6017200, email [email protected] or log on to www.kclub.ie.

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MONtHwesleY colleGewesleY college broke a 115-year hoodoo last month when they claimed their first cup win in that time, winning the leinster schools Vinny Murray cup against st Gerard’s of bray in an epic and tight-fought final at anglesea road.

Kenneth eGanheroes are born, and the clondalkin fighter went out a hero in the national stadium when he announced his retirement from the ring after being defeated by Joe ward as he attempted to claim his 11th irish national title last month.

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D u bl I n G a z e t t e newspapers is delight-ed to announce that we have teamed up again this year with the SPaR Great Ireland Run to recognise runners in each of our papers’ local areas.

The Gazette will rec-ognise the fastest man and woman from each paper’s circulation area with a specially designed plaque as well as prizes

of sports gear. after the run, we will also be pub-lishing a results list of the top local male and female finishers.

The SPaR Great Ire-land Run 2013 will take place in the Phoenix Park on Sunday, april 14, at 1 pm.

This year’s run will more than ever be about enjoying a full family running day as a mini run for five- to eight-year-olds over a one mile lap has been added to

the programme along-side a junior run for nine to 15-year-olds over 2.5km. The Mini Run and Junior Run will pre-cede the main event and an adult can run or walk alongside each child in the mini-run.

up to 12,000 entries are expected and every adult entrant will receive an exclusive technical T shirt as well as a medal and a generous goody bag after completing the run.

Participants are being encouraged to raise funds for good causes and the event’s nomi-nated charities are the Jack & Jill Children’s Foundation and SPaR’s charity partner, the 3Ts – Turn The Tide of Suicide. The baby Max Wings of love Fund is the nominated charity for the junior run and mini run.

Entries can be made online at www.greatire-landrun.org.

Get set for the Great Ireland Run

Dundrum athlete Ava

Hutchinson at the launch

of the Great Ireland Run

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MounT anville ended an 11-year itch as they finally landed the leinster schoolgirl’s Senior Cup title, having finally bro-ken their semi-final curse, missing out on a final berth at the last hurdle.

but they wasted little time this time around, Patricia McGowan prov-ing the heroine as she kept calm to poke home the solo goal in the 13th minute amid close-range melee.

It whipped the capacity Grange Road crowd into an even greater frenzy as the marquee event in schoolgirl’s hockey once again provided a show of high emotion.

McGowan’s goal would subsequently break the hearts of a Rathdown

side that have pulled up trees this year in break-ing new ground of their own. Former Irish men’s international and vet-eran of 154 caps Graham Shaw took on the director of coaching role at the Glenageary school two years ago.

Prior to the goal, Mount anville had set-tled the quicker as Ella Fennelly fired in a tester with a cracking early shot that drew the best from blathnaid breslin.

Incredibly, breslin had yet to concede in four rounds of cup hockey, most notably in last week’s semi-final against a hotly tipped High School. Her clean sheet there led to ultimate success in the penalty shoot-out after a scoreless draw in normal time.

Anville strike to claim cup county title


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sarah Ni Mhaolmhuire, Siofra Cleirigh Buttner, Clar Nic Carthaigh, Sorcha Nic Umfraidh and Sophie Nic Dhaibhead of Colaiste Iosagain were celebrating last weekend when they won the Senior Girls team title at the AVIVA Irish Schools Cross Country Championships in Univer-sity of Ulster, Jordanstown. Buttner also won the senior girl’s race to continue her impressive winning streak at schools’ competitions after a tough race against Linda Conroy from Kilbeggin.

Colaiste Iosagain win the national Senior Girls title

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DE LA Salle Palmerston held their inaugural DLSP Eagles tournament last week in Kirwan Park.

The Eagles’ head coach Dave Hicks explains that the DLSP Eagles is a team set up to cater for players with learning difficulties and or special needs.

“To date the team has over 20 players registered, with an average turnout of 12 player per training session or a match. The concept follows in line with other Leinster clubs Seapoint, Greystones and Westmanstown,” he said of the initiative.

“DLSP hosted their fellow Leinster teams and, having heard that there was a team in the North of Ireland, made contact with the Newforge Drag-ons, who were delighted with the invite to attend and agreed to travel down for the day.”

It proved a great success with games of either tip or tag rugby played depending on ability, how-ever the emphasis is on the players having fun and enjoying themselves.

In total, over 70 players took part with a large crowd of supporters, coaches and friends also enjoying the event.

The club hopes the event will continue and become bigger as other clubs set up special needs teams.

If you know anybody who maybe interested in joining the Salmo Eagles, please contact David Hicks at [email protected].

Eagles soar in first DLSP tournament

College reach junior cup finalBLACKROCK Col-lege’s junior cup team dismissed reigning champions St Michael’s 20-3 last Sunday in Don-nybrook Stadium to reach the final of the competition in a bruising encounter.

Stephen Kilgal-len raced home to ignite the tie with a dash from halfway off the back of a scrum, the try converted by

James McGowan.Tom Donnellan’s

penalty pulled back three points before half-time but Rock were further clear when Caelan Doris charged down a clear-ance kick and duly controlled the bounc-ing ball to score his side’s second try.

McGowan added a penalty soon after the break and the vic-tory was completed in injury time when winger Nick Gleeson scored his side’s third try.

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GLENMORE Dundrum were disappointed to exit the Tommy Carroll Cup at the quarter-final stage to St James’ Gate after two second half strikes from Dean Fal-lon and one from David Foran bested Stephen Redmond’s score for Glenmore.

On what was a miser-able evening both teams tried their best to pass the ball on a heavy pitch, and Glenmore were first to threaten when Gavin Merrigan headed just

wide from a corner inside the first 10 minutes.

As the first half was drawing to a close Glen-more worked a good opening for Merrigan who fired straight at John Barrett in the St James’s goal, and the game remained goalless at half time.

St James’ Gate started the second half on the front foot with Robert Emmet testing Dundrum keeper Alan Mooney from fully 30 yards, with the keeper saving well under testing condi-tions.

On 57 minutes, St James’ Gate got the breakthrough they were

looking for. With Glen-more on the attack, Daniel Doyle failed to beat the first man with his cross, which was cleared by the St James’s Gate defence.

St James’s worked the ball down the left flank and, with Glenmore struggling to get men back, switched it quickly to Dean Fallon at the back post who made no mistake, firing high into the net from 12 yards.

Glenmore responded by increasing the pres-sure, but the St James’s Gate defence held firm.

After a Glenmore player saw red, St James’ took full advantage of

their extra man when a similar move to their first goal again found Fallon at the back post, who this time squeezed his shot in off the inside of the near post to give them a two goal advantage with 25 minutes remaining.

Glenmore decided to switch formation and brought on Gregg Dun-ster who offered pace in attack. St James’ Gate were happy to soak up the pressure and try and hit Glenmore on the break.

Glenmore were given a lifeline shortly afterward when awarded a penalty. Stephen Redmond took the spot kick which was

well saved by John Bar-rett in the St James’ Gate goal, but he was power-less to stop Redmond fir-ing home the rebound.

Glenmore’s tails were up and sensed they could force the tie into extra time. However, St James’ Gate were happy to let Glenmore play in front of them and soak up the pressure before putting the final nail in the coffin on the counter attack.

With the final kick of the game David Foran raced away from the Glenmore defence and coolly chipped Alan Mooney to book their place in the semi-final.

Gate gets closed on Glenmore

SoCCer: loCal SIde make exIt from Cup CompetItIon

tommy Carroll, chairman of glenmore Dundrum, Niamh hegarty, director of hegarty Financial Management, and player ross Craigie at

the presentation of the club’s new set of strips for the 2013 season


Club NotiCeboard

Gazette

It was a quiet weekend on the foot-

ball front as all matches were called

off due to waterlogged pitches

across the county.

this coming weekend sees all three

Dublin juvenile teams in action. Both

the U-14 and U-16s will play Kildare

on saturday, while the minors are

away to wicklow on bank holiday

Monday.

Further details of venues will be

on our Facebook page later in the

week.

the death has taken place of Una

Byrne, mother of former registrar,

Diarmuid Byrne, and grandmother

to minor player, Kate and U-14 player

anna and her twin brother, Ross. we

wish the family sincere sympathies.

the club attended the Gazette

sports awards night on Friday night

in the Red Cow Moran Hotel. there

was a feast of sporting celebrities

present including Olympic swimmer

Barry Murphy and former boxer

Mick Dowling who picked up the Hall

of Fame award.

the club was there to pick up

the award as august team of the

month.

the club would like to wish all

members a very happy st Patrick’s

Day and also to wish Ballymun Kick-

hams the very best of luck in the all-

Ireland clubs’ championship finals

this coming weekend.

Naomh olaf

foxroCk CabiNteely

Last weekend saw miserable weath-

er ruin many of the matches due to

take place. However, some games

went ahead, with our senior hurlers

playing Naas in a friendly in prepa-

ration for their cup semi-final, which

takes place on sunday, st Patrick’s

Day, against st sylvester’s.

st Patrick’s Day in the club will see

live coverage of the all Ireland club

finals, hurling at 2pm and football at

3.45pm; supervised kids’ games in

the sports hall from 3.30 to 5.30pm.

Live music by Hot asphalt from 6pm,

Marto’s stew and bingo at 8.30pm.

Naomh Olaf Easter Camps 2013

take place on april 2-5.

the camp starts at 9.30am and

finishes at 2pm. the Easter Camp

is an activity programme combin-

ing coaching excellence and playing

facilities to create a fun and enjoy-

able learning environment for all

involved.

Registration forms can be down-

loaded from the club website naom-

holaf.ie. For more information, con-

tact Darren Egan: 087 708 5913.

CamoGie: CouNty stars produCe top Class wiN

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BALLINTEER St John’s Fiona Hayes played a key role in the half-backs as Dublin’s senior camogie side enjoyed a day to remember, seeing off reigning All-Ireland champions Wexford 1-8 to 0-4 in the national league.

D u b l i n / We x f o r d matches over the last six years have not been the source of many happy memories for the girls in blue so not even the Arc-tic chill could remove the smiles from the faces of players, management and supporters after this

deserved win at O’Toole Park.

The home side was the better throughout but for periods espe-cially in the first half struggled to make that dominance tell in that most important area - the scoreboard.

Opening with a crack-ing run followed by a point by Aoife Kelly after only 22 seconds to be followed by a point-ed free by Ali Maguire a minute later, Dublin raced into an early two-point lead.

It took a further 24 minutes to score again but Wexford did not

punish this situation and hit a series of wides.

A late salvo in the first half, with Ali Maguire forcing a mistake from Mags D’Arcy for the opening goal, made it 1-4 to 0-2 at half-time.

Maguire started the second half scoring too en route to a 1-4 tally, putting nine points between the sides with 14 minutes to play and Wexford were never likely to bridge the gap.

Elsewhere, Kilma-cud Crokes’ Clodagh McGough played her part in the Dublin jun-iors 0-8 to 0-5 win over Westmeath. Dublin had

the edge for most of the game but, with scores at a premium, they knew that the slightest error in defence could prove ultra costly.

Four points from Georgina Kelly and one from Roisin Col-lins pushed Dublin into a 0-5 to 0-2 half-time lead.

And Collins cleared the bar twice more in the second half despite her side going 16 min-utes without a point to ultimately get over the line, making it two wins from three outings for Dublin in national league division three.

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KILMACUD Crokes’ minor B hurlers were forced to relinquish home advantage last weekend as they fell 2-5 to 4-9 to St Jude’s due to the bad weather condi-tions that took hold of the city.

With all home pitch-es made unavailable,

it meant Crokes were forced to travel to Tymon Park for a game defined by a soft pitch and cold, windy conditions.

Despite this, the two south Dublin sides played out a high quality tie but Kilmacud struggled to turn their possession dominance into scores and Jude’s were able to convert their opportuni-

ties, building a 1-1 to 3-3 lead at half-time.

In the second half, Crokes tightened up their defence making for a much tighter affair.

Excellent free tak-ing saw Crokes keep in touch, but again they failed to convert their possession into scores from play, leaving the three goals conceded in

the first half being the main difference between the sides.

This was a much improved performance from Crokes compared to the first outing, despite the cold and the soft pitch

They now have a four week break before travel-ling to Clontarf for their next league tie.

Improved Crokes undone by St Jude’s

there was no winner and no match

first three winners of the lotto this

week, which means next week’s jack-

pot is €3,500.

the winner of the weekly sub-

scribers draw was Gerry Ebbs from

Knocklyon Green.

Ballyboden st Enda’s Gala Presen-

tation awards Night will take place

in the Red Cow Hotel on March 22.

tickets are priced at €25 per person.

For ticket information, contact Liam

Deane 087 647 1121 or Ned slattery on

087 997 8365.

Communication is key for Ballybod-

en st Enda’s, we are looking for more

people to get involved with our weekly

newsletter on a week on/off basis.

Our weekly email plays an impor-

tant role in informing members

of what is going on in the club on a

weekly basis. If you are interested in

helping out please email: newsletter@

bodengaa.ie.

Congratulations to Ballyboden sen-

ior B hurlers who got their Leinster

League campaign off to a great start

with a win over wicklow champions in

Glenealy on saturday, March 9. Final

score: Boden 1-15, Glenealy 0-7.

Congratulations to the Junior C

footballers who overcame Ballyfer-

mot with a scoreline of 2-11 to 1-6.

the senior Footballers game

against rivals Kilmacud Crokes

ended in a draw with a scoreline of

1-11 each.

Congrats to our Dublin senior

Football representatives versus Kil-

dare - Declan O’Mahony and Michael

Darragh Macauley. It was another

good win for the Dubs. we also hope

to see Darragh Nelson back in action

for their next outing.

Ballyboden theatre group will be

performing thornton wilder’s ameri-

can classic, Our town. Make sure you

join them for a night of great enter-

tainment. Performance dates from

tuesday to saturday, March 19 to 23

(not thursday). they look forward to

seeing you there.

For futher results and fixtures, log

onto www.bodengaa.ie.

Follow us on Facebook and on twit-

ter @BodenGaa.

ballybodeN st eNda’s

Substitute ali twomey in action for Dublin against Wexford when the home side claimed a famous win

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CUALA boss Harry Roberts is hoping his senior hurling side can bulk up physically in 2013 as they look to annex the Dublin SHC for the first time since 1994.

He was speaking in the wake of Monday night’s draw for the group stages of the competi-tion in which the Hyde Road club were handed what looked like another imposing group.

They will face north Dublin hurling royalty in the form of O’Toole’s and Craobh Chiarain along with Lucan Sarsfields.

Last year, they were given little hope of emerg-ing from a cast list that featured six-in-a-row chas-

ing Ballyboden St Enda’s, perennial contenders Lucan and 13-time winners, St Vincent’s.

But an epic 1-19 to 3-9 win over Boden saw them progress at the Firhouse Road club’s expense en route to the county final.

That ultimately ended in defeat to near neigh-bours Kilmacud Crokes with Roberts feeling his young side were shy one key element in that showdown.

“Physically, we have to get bigger, better and stronger. We were physically beaten in the coun-ty final last year. If we get tougher on the ball into us, we have the hurling.”

To this end, his side will have the benefit of an increased county representation with Cian O’Callaghan and Colm Cronin added to Antho-

ny Daly’s Dublin senior panel.Roberts says the increased level of training will

help the players come on “in leaps and bounds with the training, attitude and confidence-wise” but has meant that he has yet to have too many full panel training sessions.

“We’re working hard but it is difficult to get lads back into it. The weather has been terri-ble but we’re shaping up ok, getting a couple of friendlies in but we have a lot away with the county now. It’s good for them but not the team training but that will all iron itself out when championship time comes.”

As for the championship group, it looks on paper to be the toughest of the four on offer with no easy matches but Roberts says that having

tough games in the initial phase is the ideal bat-tleground to cut his side’s teeth.

“We’re quite happy with it. It stood to us last year having the tough initial group as it gets the players tuned in much quicker. There’s no one in the other groups we would consider a walkover but it’s just these clubs have great traditions.

“We’ve a great relationship with Lucan. John Dermody, our coach, was there for four years and got them to a final where they were only beaten by a point. We’ve had Lucan the last three years in our group and we always enjoy some good hurling.”

Elsewhere, the club’s return to senior football sees them paired against 2008 All-Ireland cham-pions St Vincent’s.

Harry’s game for sHC Cuala manager says his side are preparing for hurling challenge in championship as Hyde Road club target success in this year’s race

cuala will be looking to recapture the form that saw them through the senior hurling championship last season, when they defeated Ballyboden st enda’s

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