 "Deseret News (Salt Lake City)")
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'Bobby Jones' swings hard, doesn't connect emotionally
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BOBBY JONES, STROKE OF GENIUS -- ** 1/2 -- Jim Caviezel, Claire
Forlani, Jeremy Northam; rated PG (profanity).
"Bobby Jones, Stroke of Genius" doesn't gallop like last year's
"Seabiscuit," although both films glorify athletes who inspired a
nation around the same depressed times. It's just the nature of
contrast between horse racing and golf, one as breakneck as the other
is leisurely. "Seabiscuit" had everything necessary to mythologize a
hero. The Jones movie simply has a hero.
The story of Robert Tyre Jones Jr. doesn't have much drama to be
embellished. Jones was the master of golf before ...
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Invasive plant choking Lough Corrib
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times
; ...State's second-largest lake, Lough Corrib, is threatened by an invasive plant...action very quickly we will be saying Corrib RIP," Dr Joe Caffrey, a scientist...the situation on a visit to lough Corrib yesterday. Native to southern Africa...
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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The great lake; A big splash: Lough Corrib is a favourite of anglers and water enthusiasts.
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England)
; ...in the Republic? THE largest lake in the Republic is Lough Corrib in Co. Galway, which covers200 sqkms. It has long...which destroys fish habitats, and the zebra mussel. Lough Corrib gave us Irelands first canal, the Friars Cut, dug...
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A wedding to remember, and an island in Lough Corrib
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times
; ...married couple went to an old house on the shores of Lough Corrib, that was once owned by a gamekeeper on the Ashford...lake bus, and took their guests out to an island on Lough Corrib. The captain of the boat, who was admired by all the...
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 "Sunday Life (Belfast, Northern Ireland)")
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Hooray for the mayfly as Lough Corrib catches are trout of this world.
Newspaper article from: Sunday Life (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
; ...ANGLERS are proclaiming 2009 as the best mayfly season on Lough Corrib for many years. The past week alone saw superb hatches...Farrelly netted 6 trout for 10lbs for their day out. On Lough Mask, fishing was also excellent with good fly hatches...
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Two young women rescued from Lough Corrib in Co Galway
Newspaper article from: Belfast Telegraph
; The alarm was raised just after midnight when the pair got into difficulties near Oughterard Pier. They were brought to shore by a local boat and taken to hospital, where they were treated for hypothermia. One of the women has since been discharged, while the other remains under observation.
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Curbing the threat of the Corrib weed invader
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times
; ...most serious problems affecting the Lough Corrib ecosystem in decades. The jute matting...to other freshwater species. In Corrib's case, the future of an international...lakes remaining in western Europe, Corrib can still support significant stocks...
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Corrib may have had 'major' settlement
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times
; ...Ballybane green stone axe is "an important find from the Corrib catchment area and is one of a whole series of axes...been discovered over the years in and around lower Lough Corrib and the Corrib river itself," said Mr Gibbons. Dating of the axes...
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New evidence indicates human presence in Ireland's Corrib 9,000 yrs ago.
News Wire article from: Asian News International
; ...Ballybane green stone axe is "an important find from the Corrib catchment area and is one of a whole series of axes...been discovered over the years in and around lower Lough Corrib and the Corrib river itself," said Gibbons. "Dating of the axes...
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Short breaks: 48 hours in Galway This is the capital of the west of Ireland. So look for the salmon in the River Corrib, visit the Nora Barnacle Museum, home to James Joyce's wife, or relax in some of the friendly old tumbledown pubs.
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...April. GET YOUR BEARINGS The River Corrib whirls through the city, cutting...This tumbling river is an outlet for Lough Corrib and it opens out into Galway Bay...before making a dash for Lough Corrib. Follow the riverbank footpath south...
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Planning board accused of allowing destruction of priority Corrib habitat
Newspaper article from: The Irish Times
; ...An Bord Pleanala of permitting "the deliberate destruction" of priority habitat limestone pavement at the protected Lough Corrib site in Co Galway by granting approval for the [euro]317 million Galway city outer bypass. In a strong attack on...
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