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I know this has been done before but thought this was bit more specific.

Any town/Villages in North east/West that would be suitable for a stag from Blayney in Monaghan.

A good golf course in area would be desirable as alot of those going will be golfers. Prob about 15 - 20 lads in total.

Areas under considering include Carlingford, Ballyconnell (heard its not too hot for going out though).

Not looking for a big town such as Letterkenny, Sligo etc. Somewhere smaller with a few pubs and a bit of character.

Best stag i had was in Tyrrelspass a few years back.

Any help with a programme or download that will convert a Works file to Excel.

Client has sent me in a spreadsheet in works. We had a old computer with works and excel on it that we could open it as works and save it as excel but we dumped that last year at some stage. Can't seem to find a trial version of Works either to download and use.

Any ideas, thanks.

Over the weekend a good Friends father died suddenly. Two of his daughters are in Sydney and obviously had to make it back asap. One of them was up the coast and had to get a flight back to Sydney to meet her sister and boyfriend who had booked 3 seats on the first available flight for them.

She made her way to the airport cloest to her but no flights were going to Sydney till next day (she had rang and was told they were but the one flight was cancelled). To say she was a bit hysterical/shook up was prob an understatement. The desk staff seemed to be of little help and said she could only wait till the next day.

A man approached having overheard the problem and listened to her plight. He then said not to worry he'd have her on the flight to London with her sister. He then got on his mobile and done the following for her:
Rang next closest airport-booked the two of them 2 seats to Sydney domestic-hired a car and drove the two of them to this airport (1.5 hrs away at a good pace)-travelled with her to Sydney domestic-got them a taxi to Sydney Intl.-collected her tickets and took her to the gate of the flight to meet her sister and brother. He paid for everything and only give his name, no address or phone number for refund.

May be considered risky taking off with a stranger (he abandoned his own travel plans and wasn;t a airline employee) but in the circumstances she said that thought never even entered her mind.

Was this man an angel from above? Prob not, but he was a really good samartian and kinda shows that in todays world there are still people who will put others first.

Fair play to him.

New thread, if anyone has any issues that may be addressed through other board members experience they can seek the advice in here.

My problem: Spiders. Seem to have an abnormal number knocking around the house. I have heard that due to the mild winters and damp summers that spider and insect numbers are higher than ever before.

Anyone any tips/old housewives remedies as how to rid them. i have heard of glasses of lemon juice will do the trick?

All answers on a postcard please.

The club fixtures pile up in Monaghan is a farce. Our senior team has/will have play the following fixtures:

Saturday 28th April- Senior league match (
Wednesday 2nd May- Senior league match
Saturday 5th May- Senior League Match
Monday 7th May- Senior league Match
Wednesday 9th May- Senior league Match. Total of 5 games in 12 days.

Plus our Junior B's played yesterday and have another fixture on Sunday 8th May. Our C team have a game this evening and another on Monday 7th May.

Some of our players played Saturday in a hard hitting game and again yesterday in the Junior B. One of them didn't last till half time and the others were well busted by the end of it.

By the 9th May its hard to see the games been played at any kind of level with players worn out. For younger players it wouldn't help the burnout issue and the county players are just after a long league campiagn.

Its a total farce and I believe it comes from pressure from the county management to give them plenty of free weekends before the ulster match in June.

Anybody else having a fixture pile up like this?