Galway Advertiser 1979/1979_09_27/GA_27091979_E1_012.pdf 

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Night Club and Bar Rooms on Thursday, 27th Sept.
R.T.E. COMINATCHA I N
IRELAND'S MOST LUXURIOUS NIGHT CLUB, WITH PLUSH BARS AND RESTAURANT OPENS WITH TOP RADIO DISC JOCKEY

Also presenting
M A R Q U E E ROOMS: Thurs 27--Cuchulainn (Ballads) Fri 28--Brendan Mulhare and guests (Ireland's champion accordion player). Sat 29--Kelly and Taylor Sunday 30--Capricorn Monday 1--Capricorn Tuesday 2--Kelly and Taylor Wed 3--Cuchulainn (Ballads) Sing along, drink along NO COVER C H A R G E

Thursday 27th -- R O N A N C O L L I N S Friday 28th -- RIBBONS D I S C O Saturday 29th -- T O P D.J. W I T H RIBBONS D I S C O

RONAN COLLINS
Dancing till 1 o'clock. With Bar Extension and excellent Restaurant facilities-

Sunday 30th -- RIBBONS D I S C O Bar Ext., Restaurant facilities, etc.

The Management will insist on patrons being over 20 and proper dress. Our Function Room is available for private parties, functions, trade shows, or any fund raising venture. Bookings are now being taken for your special Christmas function. For reservation ring Galway 23627. Morning coffees, workers' lunches, weddings, dinner dances, office parties catered for. the next twenty years that wont have the rake of picnic stools. There must be over a hundred different types of souvenir being flogged, from cheap plaster s t a t u e t t e s , to bronze plaques and 'Gold look' i h v r v u e medallions. I wonder if his Holiness realises what an a r e a a a i n industry he has become Well this is the big week since he decided to visit and n o m i s t a k e . T h e Ireland. Pontiffs visit is causing a I was astounded to read sort of mass hysteria, if ye'll excuse the pun, and the that the staggering sum of whole place is gone daft one and a half million with anticipation. Out our pounds which was collected road, there has been a sort of last Sunday week was pilgrimage for the past insufficient and that a couple of weeks that would further half of a million at put Lourdes to shame. On least was needed to pay for last Sunday they were out in the visit. Now, don't get me their hundreds, looking wrong, I'm very impressed over the wall at t h e with the Pope's visit, and I Racecourse as if they were think that it is probably the expecting the Pope to arrive biggest single thing that has at any minute. I hear that all happened to Galway in its the 'Pope stools' are nearly seven hundred year history, gone and that there wont be but to spend two million or a house in the country for more on this visit seems to me to be excessive, and I ' m more certain that the Holy Father himself would be the first to agree. In these hard times when two million pounds could do so much if put towards the housing of h o m e l e s s ; w h a t a memorial to the Pope's visit it would be if even a small p e r c e n t a g e of t h e s e unfortunates could say that they remembered the Pope's visit well, because that was the year that they got somewhere to live. There will be those amongst you that will be horrified that I should even question these things and will infer that I'm anti religious as a result; this is not so, and if ye think about it some of ye may even agree with me. Anyway, I don' write this column every week in the interest of making friends, or even keeping them sometimes, and I'm sure that when the Pontiffs visit is all over and he has left a lasting memory on the history of our country, it won't be because we spent over two million quid that we will remember it. A harrowing aside that I heard aprops the visit was that the event is so well organised, and fair play to the committee that have been stage managing the entire thing, is that they even have a refrigerated lorry up there to handle any deaths that are likely to occur during the event--a sort of mobile morgue, God between us and all harm! To change the subject, this coming week will see another event which, though not as important as that which we have been discussing, is nevertheless important. I speak of Ollie Jennings's last presentation. That's right madam, the tall hairy fella that puts on the concerts, he's packing it in with his final event; The Loudon Wainwright Concert in Leisureland next Wednesday night at 8.30 p.m. Admission is only five dollars, and I know that this will be a night to remember, long after the bold Ollie has left to join the establishment or whatever. Be sure ye support it now, don't forget. By the way the supporting group will be Tumbleweed. Don't forget yeer winter woolies for Ballybrit will ye, I don't want ye catching pinumoney of the varicose
veins! DICK BYRNE.

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