Our Guest Artist the brilliant Steve Lally enthralled the audience at this month's Open Mic with tales of ghosts, orchards, apples and the counting of souls. With balls of gold and wakes and rising dead that kept us glued to our seats. Mingled with beautiful poetry to finish the first half of the evening. Thank you Steve and come back soon.

Our Easter raffle followed with some delighted visitors winning wine, prosecco and collectable gift tea pot along with 6 lucky, luckly people sitting on tickets for Easter eggs!  After the brawl for the eggs things calmed down to have the results of the poetry competition.  This month's winner Matthew Toner from Armagh and Brett Lemick from Dublin. Congratulations to both. 

 Sue Divin belts it out

Our Open Mic had a great variety of participants. Musicians Dennis McCloskey; Eoin Kelly and Sue Divin. Singers Fergal Donnelly; Frances Lavery; Kate McConville and Bridie Heaney. Poets Mark Brownlee ; Brett Lemick; Malachi Kelly; Mary Farren and Matthew Toner and Ann Gilmartin storyteller. We also had a poem entry from a young Nigerian poet Oladejo Abdullah Feranmi which was read by Malachi and much appreciated by the audience. 

Next month's Special Guest is singer songwriter from Newry, DANNY DORAN, and in asking for a bio Danny said,

''It's not so much what Ive done it's a case of what I've not done. We were the only group that appeared on Opportunity Knocks that got boo'ed by the clappometer ''   

Well Danny,  Opportunity Knocks again and I'm almost sure there will be no booing from the Abbey Lane audience when you visit on the 26th April.

 DANNY DORAN April's guest.