Need a break from Christmas shopping? Not getting out enough? Why not try “The Field” at the Town Hall this Sunday or Monday nights ?
Recreation
Newpoint: ‘The Field’
Newpoint’s latest offering kicks off tomorrow (Wednesday) night week (30th Sept) in the Town Hall at 8.00pm. Charlie Smyth presents the John B Keane favourite ‘The Field’.
Newry U3A meets President McAleese
Yesterday Wednesday 9 September was a big day for Newry U3A when we finally got to meet our esteemed President, Her Excellency Mary McAleese.
Young Musicians : Quigley
I promised, always in future, to give plenty of advanced notice of the Newry Chamber Music events, so here goes ….
Fiddlers/Tom Dunne Festival
Today we will be catching up with events at our finest Festival, Fiddlers Green with, first, the lunchtime Concert at the Kilbroney Arms. Then at the weekend we will choose from the programme below, of the Tom Dunne Society.
Lucia Welsh’s 60th Birthday
Just about everyone in the town knows Lucia Welsh so it was a great privelege and honour to be among those invited to share her birthday celebration – first at a Mass celebrated in St Clare’s Chapel by her brother Fr Oscar Welsh, and then at the home of her aunt Tara McIntyre.
Midsummer Music
I promised to give you plenty of advance notice of Newry Chamber Music’s midsummer event at Lislea Community Centre (Directions ? Through Camlough, round the Lake, up Sturgan Brae and 3 km on).
Old Point Bands
With the coming of Easter and Spring, my mind was turning to Sunday afternoons in P J O’Hares in Carlingford and the Four Pennies … then to the Point Bands of old! Here are a few ….
Equus
Of my lifetime of attending Newry Drama Festival, two plays in particular stand out, Agnes of God and Equus. Tonight is the first return of the latter and it is performed by one of the best societies in Ireland, Silken Thomas of Kildare!