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University of Galway has announced a new scholarship in honour of actress Siobhán McKenna, and theatre maker and scenographer Nouf Rafea is its first recipient.
One Tuesday night in the mid-eighties, I drove to Hanlon’s corner in Dublin to check out The Eccentric’s Club. I could tell you it was because it was where the first no limit hold’em tournaments to be held in Europe took place when, a few years earlier, Terry Rogers had imported them from the World Series Of Poker in Binions, Las Vegas. Or I could tell you I wanted to meet Donnacha O’Dea and Colette Doherty, legends I’d read about in the newspaper. But really , I just had to see the joint that had a name like that. It didn’t disappoint. I was early so Terry opened the door himself....
Brighid's Diary: The greatest Irish poker player, and the night he met Marilyn Independent.ie 10/01/2021 Brighid McLaughlin My grand aunt Rose loved poker. When I recall her kitchen now, the green baize covering the vinyl tablecloth, the smell of wood, turf and smoke, the slow ticking of the clock, the faint pinkish heart of a flame, the banter, it had a unique country magic. I remember the room filling up with farmers, some Macra na Feirme lads, everyone slagging. Questions were asked about this man and that. Were they alive or dead? When one local miser had a heart attack,...