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JACKPOT! What a lotto luck! Carlow scoops the €66m bonanza

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THERE are new millionaires in our midst. The €66m EuroMillions jackpot ticket was sold in a Carlow shop and the lucky winners are believed to be local.

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At the launch by Virgin Media and the National Parent’s Council of a three year partnership to provideiInternet safety classes for parents of primary schoolchildren were, from left:Tony Hanway, CEO Virgin Media Ireland and Áine lynch, CEO of the National Parents Council and Alli MacDonnell with her daughter Sara Dunne.

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Erin Cabs

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Erin Cabs is Carlowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only Freephone Taxi Company. They provide a 24 hour, 7 days a week taxi service around Carlow and beyond. There are a range of taxis available from four-seater saloons to eight-seater wheelchair accessible vehicles. They are also able to provide baby seats. If you are travelling to or from the airport, ferry ports, sightseeing, doctors or hospital visits, Erin Cabs will provide a good reliable service.

Tom Hardy stars in this crime thriller in the dual role of infamous gangster twins Ronald and Reginald Kray. The film chronicles the Kray twinsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; career during the 1950s and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;60s as they tighten their tyrannical rule over London. With Ronnieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mental stability in question Reggie attempts to keep him under control while embarking on a romance with the beautiful Frances Shea (Emily Browning). Meanwhile, Detective Superintendent Leonard â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Nipperâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Read (Christopher Eccleston) tries to bring the Krays down.

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Maxi Zoo

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Maxi Zoo staff understand how much happiness your pet brings you and will work with you to ensure your pet has a healthy, happy, fulfilled and fun life. Maxi Zoo boasts an impressive line of exclusive products, designed by pet lovers for pet lovers. All Maxi Zoo stores offer a free weighing service, along with plenty of advice and assistance regarding your petâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s personal nutrition needs. Maxi Zoo Pet is located at Four Lakes Retail Park, Dublin Rd, Carlow. Visit maxizoo.ie for more.

Rihannaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eighth album showcases the many moods of the superstar.

Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dancehall pop, synth rock, oddball electronica, a piano ballad a Tame Impala cover and a Dido sample. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wonderfully chaotic and shows a musician in her stride who, by taking three years to complete this album, has rejected popâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s relentless schedule and is doing it her way.

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Paul Byrne Car Sales Paul Byrne Car Sales is Leinsterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s leading independent used car supermarket based in Timolin, Co Kildare. They have been serving the Leinster area for over 25 years and are located between Naas & Carlow just off the M9 at exit 3. They have a wide range of cars, commercials and 4x4s, with over 100 vehicles in stock that are all serviced and NCT prepared. They offer a 1 year warranty on most vehicles and can also arrange motor finance. Visit www.pbcs.ie

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Oxenfree (Xbox One, PC, Mac) Oxenfree follows five teens stuck on a mysterious island - an island with a secret. Radio waves are causing a rift between dimensions, messing with time and summoning spectres from the past. Oxenfree concentrates on creating a creepy atmosphere along with some great story-telling, in which things you choose to say steer the plot.

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Goosebumps Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 15 years since Zoolander first sashayed into cinemas and the sequel sticks to the formula. Zoolander 2 is stitched together from some teeny scraps of plot, studded with a few really smart jokes and a lot of very stupid ones, then heavily studded with dazzling star cameos. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a likeable mess, although it lacks the memorable lines of the first, making it liable to be enjoyed once and forgotten, rather than revisited for years to come.

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Hollow Men, Rob McCarthy

Boomerang (free)

Solomon Idris has taken eight people hostage in a chicken takeaway, and is demanding a lawyer and a BBC reporter. Dr Harry Kent is sent in to treat the clearly ill teenager before the siege goes horribly wrong. But when Solomonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s life is put in danger again from the safety of a critical care ward, it becomes clear he knows something people will kill to protect.

Determined to find out what drove the boy to such desperate action, Harry soon uncovers a dark secret.

Boomerang bridges the gap between photos and videos. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an app by Instagram, which shoots a burst of ten photos and transforms them into a looping mini video. All it takes is a single tap, so itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s as quick and easy to use as Instagram and just as easy to share the fruits of your labour too. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a separate app, but your creations can be posted to both Instagram and Facebook without leaving Boomerang. If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve already bought into Instagram this is a great extension.

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Lollyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s favourite Sunday sessions ANYONE who knows me wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t be surprised when I say I love a good session.

But my favourite time and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m suffering from it now as I write this - to go on the lash is on a Sunday evening.

I know itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s technically a â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;school dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, but I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t resisit the Sunday â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;bangâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, despite the ineviable depression and darkness that will follow on Monday.

Anyway, hereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s my top three picks of where to have the ideal Sunday session, in

no particular order: The Uluru, Dunmore Road The Uluru is the Deise Outback Bar. I love this pub for many reasons. The staff, the food the yagerbombs, and if Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m honest the auld talent is not too bad out there either and they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t catch ya by the bum out that neck of the woods.

The Uluru always have great bands and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re always guaranteed a good day and night out here.

The Hub If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re looking for a drink and a dance, then this legendary city centre watering hole is unbeatable. Renowned for its live music, regulars can be seen queuing out the door to sample some of the local and bands. Formerly the Olde Rogue (and the Wacky Apple), this little pub is steeped in history. They donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do food here but they do focus on the quality of their drink and always serve it with a lovely smile.

Tourists looking for a taste or old Ireland wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ďŹ nd a better ďŹ t.

Sinnotts Renowned for its live music and DJs, Sinnotts has an amazing dance ďŹ&#x201A;oor if your looking to get down and boogie. Lolly would love to tell you more about the venue, but unfortunately the details are a little sketchy as last time I was here I had such a good night that I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t seem to remember much. Strange that ...

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Barrowside Gael casts a roaming eye on the Carlow GAA scene...

Blast from the past: Regional Collegeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hurling glory

With IT Carlow an hour away from hurling history and a ďŹ rst ever Fitzgibbon Cup semi-ďŹ nal appearance it is an opportune time to dip into the collegesâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; hurling past and publish an old photograph of a team which may well have been the ďŹ rst to bring silverware to the Kilkenny Road educational establishment.

Operating then as Carlow Regional College these lads won a Higher Education Division 2 or 3 title in the late 70s/early 80s and while we have not a full caption to hand we do know there are a number of Carlow-Kilkenny

connections ...

Second from the left in the front row is Christy Kenny, the source of the pic, who won a number of SHC medals with Myshallâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Naomh Eoin before work and then love saw him settle in Kilkenny, Paulstown to be precise.

His son Cathal won All-Ireland minor honours with the black and amber and a couple of years ago added a Fitzgibbon Cup medal in the colours of Waterford IT. Having played his early juvenile hurling in Carlow Town it could be said he is the second Carlow man to

win a Fitzgibbon Cup on the ďŹ eld of play, the ďŹ rst, and ofďŹ cially only, being Tom Nolan of St Mullins who was on the victorious UCD team way back in 1960.

Side by side, fourth and third from the right in the back row are Lester Ryan and Nickey Walsh, Lester, uncle of Kilkenny 2014 captain of the same name, hurled himself with the Cats at the top level, suffering the heartache of All-Ireland ďŹ nal defeat in 1987.

The Clara man, of course, is well known to Carlow GAA people in his Coaching and

Development role with the Leinster Council.

Nickey Walshe of Danesfort was on the Kilkenny panel for the 1978 All-Ireland minor hurling ďŹ nal but three years later, now working and living in Carlow town, he played U-21 hurling with his adopted county, contesting a Leinster â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Specialâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; ďŹ nal, and he is still resident in Carlow.

That Carlow Regional College teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s DJ Carey-like-mentor was the one and only Dick Roche, or Risteard de Roiste as he prefers to be called, a great gael, an unsung hero of Carlow hurling.

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