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On Thursday last week, Britain got to enjoy the nationwide electoral celebration that was ‘Super Thursday’. We then got to endure an entire weekend of thrilling, adrenaline-fuelled news coverage as England became just a bit bluer than before; Scotland a little yellower with a few flecks of green; and Wales a bit redder and a bit less pink, and ultimately we got to see by the end that nothing much had really changed. These most recent elections were, in many ways, so conventionally uninteresting they seemed to have been forgotten before they even took place (in the Hartlepool by-election, turnout was 42.7% – some 15% below the 2019 election, and in the most recent Airdrie and Shotts by-election it was as low as 34.3%).
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A general view of the senior football training pitch at The Clare GAA Centre Of Excellence in Caherlohan. Photograph by John Kelly
Synthetic Pitch The Top Priority For Caherlohan Working Group
April 29, 2021
The chairperson of the group tasked with working toward a plan to address the issues at Clare GAA’s Centre of Excellent has outlined the three main priorities to begin that process.
The much maligned €4.8 million venue at Caherlohan has been the subject of intense scrutiny and discussion over the last few months, with clubs being invited to visit the facility for themselves last weekend before making any submissions to the new strategic group for the future of Clare GAA.
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The Wolfe Tones Three (left to right) - Noel Nagle, Tommy Byrne and Brian Warfield. By Mairead Carey, Contributor
The peace process hasn’t extended to the Irish ballad group the Wolfe Tones. The famous music group split last Christmas, and is now at war over who is entitled to use the name.
There are now two groups, each styling themselves the Wolfe Tones, and the rift has led to an upsurge of jokes about the group, which has entertained the nation with Republican ballads for the last 38 years.
The split has caused deep division among the Warfield family. The two brothers and leading members of the group, songwriter Brian and singer Derek, have not spoken since Derek was informed by a lawyer’s letter that the partnership was being dissolved.
COVID ONE YEAR ON: Dancing community missing the buzz a year later
The cancellation of the Bellaghy Championships was one of the first signs of the virus effect locally.
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With Stormont slow to respond to the growing crisis, the Allen School of Irish Dancing was among many local organisations who took decisive action. Teacher Aileen Close tells Liam Tunney it was the right choice.
Just over a week had passed since the first case of Covid-19 had been recorded in Nothern Ireland when the first signs of its effects began to find their way to County Derry.