As club teams resume full contact training this week, Paddy McGill grabs his gear and heads to Páirc na nGael.

He meets some of the Naomh Columba 'royalty' including Paddy Hegarty and 'Murphy'. Management and players give our Paddy an insight into what's it's like to be back in club championship mode again.

PLUS - Donegal senior manager Declan Bonner gives his 'take' on the revised intercounty fixture plan and the 'tug-of-love' between club and county.

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Lenny Abrahamson, Director of hit TV series Normal People, has said he's glad that the production has helped promote Co Sligo positively. He's been reacting to the proposal by a Sligo councillor to grant him, the cast and writers of the series a Civic Reception

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Sligo hosts its first race meeting of 2020 behind closed doors today (Thurs, July 2nd).

There's a seven-race flat card, starting at 4:10pm, but It's going to be a very different experience - as racecourse manager Kathryn Foley explains to Ocean FM Sport.

This Week:

(1:10)Tara McGowan Cairde Sligo Arts Festival

(7:12)Ted Kelly Lo Fi Trip hop meets Jazz

(8:47)Michael Harding newly commissioned prose by the Glens Centre "the Man Who Knew Nothing"

www.oceanfm.ie/arts for more.

Arts North West is a weekly, magazine arts show that covers everything creative in the region. Featuring the best of music, theatre, storytelling, with the best of talent from Sligo, North Leitrim & South Donegal. Produced and Recorded in The Glens Arts Centre, Manorhamilton. It is supported by Pobal, The Arts Council & Leitrim County Council.

Presented by Glens Artistic Director, Brendan Murray, it aims to afford artists of all disciplines the opportunity to engage with the community during this lockdown season.

This week's Health Slot discusses the importance of wearing masks during the Covid-19 pandemic, and discusses how those with respiratory conditions are affected. Rob Wood, Superintendent Pharmacist with Cara Pharmacy, takes the questions

Listen back to a podcast of the draws for the 2020 Sligo GAA club championships in football and hurling, which were made on Wednesday night - introduced by Austin O'Callaghan and Cathal Mullaney.

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Sligo Rovers Chairman Tommy Higgins says nine of the 10 Premier Division clubs are unhappy with the National League Executive Committee's decision to keep relegation from the revised and shortened Premier Division campaign the same as last season.

A member of the Sligo family, three of whom have contracted the coronavirus, has spoken of the hurt they feel after social media comments on their situation. Henen Orang's brother tested positive for the virus after returning from Iraq to Sligo last week, and his wife and child have since tested positive. Henen insists the family have done nothing wrong

A Cabinet fit for Cromwell is how the Editor of the Western People, James Laffey, describes the make-up of the new coalition Government, after the exclusion of any Minister from the Western Seaboard. While Sligo businessman, Anthony Gray, says the decision is astonishing, but not surprising

The lifeguard service at Bundoran's main beach has now been restored. There was criticism of the absence of a lifeguard last Thursday when four children were rescued after getting into difficulties. Donegal councillor Michael Naughton believes the beach should have a lifeguard from Easter onwards every year