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What a lovely singer and an even lovelier lady. Saw her in London on Saturday night and she put on an unforgettable performance and charmed the audeince with her genuineness, her lovely accent and her charming stories.  Her band (which includes her husband Sam) is also very talented.

John Smith also sang a song with her and he has an amazing voice.   Their song is as follows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnshetxHibY&feature=related.  I think he has an album due out soon.

Would definately recommend that you go see her if you get a chance.

Now I don't know if Guinness Extra Cold is that prevalent in Ireland yet - I doubt it - but in England its the norm and many bars have done away with regular Guinness and only have this extra cold stuff. 

In one small irish bar (that didn't have normal Guinness on tap) I was told by the owner "sure only oul men drink that regular Guinness and sure you're not an oul man are ya?"

So what's the story? Why is this Guinness Extra Cold taking over?

So i'm giving up the drink for lent.  Which effectively means i'm giving up guinness.  Now as a warm up/down I went cold turkey this weekend.  But when I went to my local bar to watch the Rugby I discovered it was £2.20 for a Pint of Pepsi.  Now in the same bar its £2.70 for a lovely pint of G (£2.50 in his January sale).  So I started to think of the merits of both to try to decide the lesser evil:

Cost:  Draw, Coke with a small advantage (cause after eight pints you dont buy rounds for random strangers)
Calories: Coke has more calories
Sugar: Coke is the clear winner
Alcohol: Guinness is guilty here

So I reckon both are bad on the wallet, guinness is bad on the liver whilst Coke is bad on the teeth.  But with Coke having a higher calorific content I reckon it must be slightly worse (Guinness doesn't give me hangovers).  What d'ya reckon - which is worse?

I understand that the Irish News is doing a feature about the top fifteen players to play for each County ever. Readers must vote for each County's Top 15.

The 30 players from each County with the most votes are then put forward for selection in the 125 greatest players from Ulster ever.

So who makes your county's top 15?  (There is a risk that this will get corrupted by myopic fans - although then again a Tyrone team that won three All-Irelands or an Armagh team that won seven Ulster titles in ten years warrants a fair representation).

For what its worth I had a stab at picking 15 Fermanagh stalwarts (some of whom are listed on reputation only as i'm too young to have seen them play!):

Peter McGinnity
Barry Owens
Martin McGrath
Tommy Durnien
Colin Curran
Rory Gallagher
Raymond Gallagher
PT Treacy
Mick Brewster
Paul Brewster
Tom Brewster
Ryan McCluskey
Stephen Maguire
JJ Treacy
Ciaran Campbell

That's three from the 1959 All Ireland Junior Football Championship winning team, two from the Ulster Finalists of 1982, four from the All Ireland B Championship side of 1996, five from the All ireland Semi Finalists of 2004 and Tommy Durnien, the first Fermanagh man to win a Railway Cup medal.

A pretty fair representation of the glory days of Fermanagh football