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by Cormac MacConnellCormac is a novelist, journalist and columnist. "The West's Awake" is a big hit with Irish Voice readers.
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Thursday, July 26, 2012 at 09:13 AM
Final thought for this week -- if you have not yet made a will then do it soonest. It's great craic altogether!
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Life and living revolve around sporting miracles - Wimbeldon, GAA and the Olympics
I salute the magnificent Murray sisters and their parents, and I am sure many of you join with me in that.
Galway the summer place to be in Ireland this year -- Western city defies all the naysayers in doom and gloom times
My gentle brother Cathal is over from Scotland to play a gig with his friends in the Crane Bar, which I've often mentioned here before, and our evening will end there much later,but first we go to the Oslo Hotel in Salthill for a meal and a few pints.
I own a pair of red britches that I don for special occasions. I'm wearing them this midsummer night in the City of the Tribes.
