SATURDAY 19th October
Tax, Drugs, Rock and Roll
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Venue: Yard Bar, Matt Molloys
Time: 11.45 am
Cost: €15
To Book: Clew Bay Hotel, 09828088 or online Westport Town Hall
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How Ireland was transmogrified from one big damp Craggy Island into Cool Hibernia, complete with tax-dodging rock stars, Boys in Green mania and U2’s favourite nightclub. Author Damian Corless regales us with tales of how Ireland re-invented itself.
Caution to the Wind
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Venue: Clew Bay Hotel
Time: 2pm
Cost: €15
To Book: Clew Bay Hotel 09828088 or online Westport Town Hall
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As a 13-year-old, Terry Prone had her first argument on TV, by her late teens she was a regular on the Late Late Show, and then fell in love with and married a priest. Terry went on to become one of the country’s foremost communications experts, write more than 20 books and found a successful business. She talks to Barbara Scully about the extraordinary life captured in her memoir.
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Politics, Power, War and Peace
with Diarmaid Ferriter, Lindsay Hilsum (via Zoom), Terry Prone
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Venue: Clew Bay Hotel
Time: 6pm
Cost: €15
To Book: Clew Bay Hotel 0982088 or online Westport Town Hall
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Everything you wanted to know about forthcoming elections but were too depressed to ask. With a hugely consequential US election just weeks away - and an Irish election not too far off- a panel of experienced political pundits talk about the current state of affairs. Channel 4’s International Editor Lindsey Hilsum, currently reporting on events in Beirut, will join the Rolling Sun by Zoom, for the discussion with historian Diarmaid Ferriter, and commentator and communications expert Terry Prone.
