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Written by actress Laoisa Sexton, who also plays the role of Bee, For Love has already enjoyed a successful run in New York and comes to Galway as part of an Irish tour.

“We did it for the First Irish Festival which was on last September in New York,” Sexton tells me. “I submitted it and it got in. I didn’t think it would because I wrote it very fast. My first play took me a year and a half and this one was done in a month. We sold out on the run and it was a big success and then we did it off - Broadway and then the tour came along and it’s just been gathering momentum, it’s been quite an experience, I have learned so much.”

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“We funded this ourselves, we did a fundit campaign,” she says. “We didn’t get any grant aid, when we applied we were told us there were only grants for work leaving Ireland not coming into the country. But it all came together eventually and hopefully sometime there will be structures set up to support the community of Irish artists living overseas.

“We even approached The Gathering and they said it didn’t qualify as ‘an event’. Yet it was John Duddy’s homecoming [ex-boxer Duddy is in the cast] and that was a big deal in Derry and we were invited to meet Martin McGuinness at Stormont for tea and bicies!”

Sexton goes on to describe the content of the play.

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“It’s about what you will do for love and put yourself through. Val has a one-night stand and tears her heart out looking for the right person. The only time someone says ‘I love you’ in the play is when the married man is talking to his wife on the phone and he doesn’t really love her at all. They are four people who are really searching.”

What of the play’s characters?

“Val is overweight but optimistic and goes out on all these one-night stands trying desperately to find someone.” Sexton replies. “Bee is a single mother who is about to be a granny at thirty-two and the third woman, Tina, is unhappily married and she fills her life up with shopping and superficial things.

“All the male roles are played by John Duddy, including a married guy that Bee is debating about taking things to the next level with. It’s funny and dark, it’s a dark-blue comedy.”

As well as Duddy and Sexton, the cast features Jo Kinsella (Val) and Georgina McKevitt (Tina).

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“These women have climbed up by their own efforts so they are successful in some regards, just not in love and that is the one thing that is missing from all their lives.”

Luxury brands take a page from casinos and cater to Chinese overseas

With flagging sales in their mainland stores and increasingly price savvy consumers, luxury companies are taking a leaf out of casinos’ play books by offering junkets to wealthy Chinese clients eager to splurge in their Hong Kong stores.

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“Luxury companies’ results for Q1 certainly suggest that sales to Chinese consumers outside of China continue to grow faster than sales to Chinese consumers within China,” said Vincent Liu, managing director of Boston Consulting Group in Hong Kong.

He says about a third of luxury sales – from handbags and shoes to cosmetics – to Chinese take place in China versus a third in Hong Kong or Macau and a third in the rest of the world.

Luxury goods in mainland China can be anywhere between 30-40 percent more expensive than in Hong Kong due to luxury and import taxes as well as pricing strategies.

“Their real stores are in Hong Kong or Paris. Their Chinese stores are just store fronts,” said Renee Hartmann, co-founder of consultancy China Luxury Advisors.

Upmarket brands are increasingly holding private events in Beijing or Shanghai for an exclusive clientele – events where they pay deposits on items in the mainland and then are flown on an all-inclusive trip to Hong Kong to complete the purchase.

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China’s new leader Xi Jinping earlier this year announced a crackdown on corruption and urged the political elite to refrain from flashy displays of wealth. This has had a negative impact on the practice of ‘gifting’ – where executives or officials are given luxury items in return for favours. This shift is forcing luxury brands to re-evaluate the role of their China stores and overseas stores.

“They are thinking less about ‘Where do I open my next few stores’, ‘How can I speed up my expansion’ but more, ‘What role do the stores in China play, what roles do the stores overseas play and how many stores in China do I really need?’ That’s a different way of thinking than maybe two to three years ago,” Stocker said.

LVMH, the world’s No.1 luxury goods group, said this month that demand in China in the past 9-10 months had been flattish due to a weakening in economic growth and a government crackdown on gifts for favours. Price increases in Europe have made shopping in Paris and Milan less attractive for tourists from Asia, but it still remains a top desination for Chinese luxury spenders.

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“This is the best way to talk about the brand and its heritage and its legitimacy,” said Leopold-Metzger, adding the number of visits would be “open”.

“Of course they buy, we don’t force them but they want too,” he said of VIP’s spending on the trips.

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This trend was seen starkly during January to February, a period encompassing China’s Spring Festival, one of the two golden-week travel periods in China.

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In contrast, overseas luxury spending by Chinese tourists rose 18 percent to $8.5 billion, half of which was spent in Europe, it said.

Christine Lu, the Los Angeles-based chief executive of luxury experience company Affinity China said the brands still need to maintain their stores in China to retain “mindshare” of the customers when they travel.

“When they travel overseas maybe two or three times a year, they are influenced by what they see in China. There are probably many luxury companies who aren’t making any money from those ridiculously high rents in Shanghai or Beijing but it’s a sunk marketing cost,” Lu said.

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Yu, who sells her items by advertising on China’s microblogging platform Weibo, is not considered a VIP client by these brands and eligible for these “junkets”, still she travels overseas to sate her desire for luxury.

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Sunday was Rapinoe's first return to her alma mater since she helped the U.S. women's Olympic team defeat Japan in the soccer final.

Before the match, she hung the medal around a young boy's neck.

“It's heavy, huh?” Rapinoe asked the boy, named Casey.

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“People want to see it,” Rapinoe, who was among 10 candidates selected last week for the FIFA Women's World Player of the Year, said. “It's not an object you can just get.”

As a college midfielder there, Rapinoe was named West Coast Conference Freshman of the Year, a Soccer America First Team All-American and West Coast Conference Player of the Year. She played an undefeated season her freshman year. She missed two seasons due to ACL injuries, but the school -- that field, in particular -- feels like home.

“It just makes me so nostalgic,” she said, watching this year's team move the ball through heavy rain. “I want to be playing. The field looks beautiful.”

Rapinoe lived in Chicago for two years after graduating in 2008, but she's most spent most of the past four years traveling. After the World Cup and Olympics, her life slowed down a bit. She moved back to Portland with twin sister Rachael a month ago. They live in the Pearl District.

“I always wanted to come back here,” she said.

The school honored Rapinoe at half-time. Its makeshift band did a combination percussion a capella singing of “We Love You Megan,” to the tune of Frankie Valli's “Can't Take My Eyes Off You.”

The Clive Charles Soccer Complex wasn't quite packed Sunday, but the school has held the NCAA record for highest attendance since 2005 -- Rapinoe's freshman year. The school's stadium can hold nearly 5,000 fans.

They've sold out a few games this year, but Brigham Young University's fans have given Portland's a run for their money this year. Portland's games must draw at least 3,500 fans for the next few games to keep the top spot. Rapinoe's attendance helped. The game drew 3,SKY Cycling392 -- more than BYU's last game, which had 3,351 fans.

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"I think people are more waiting to see what's really going to happen," he said.

Seven North Dakota counties including Stutsman, Sioux, Emmons, Logan, McIntosh, LaMoure and Dickey were in a blizzard warning as of 4 p.m. Tuesday. Twenty-one counties, including Burleigh, Morton, Grant and Oliver, were in a winter storm warning.

National Weather Service meteorologist Patrick Ayd said Bismarck and Mandan can expect light snowfall early in the evening with heavy snowfall beginning between 8 and 10 p.m. In the late evening, winds would pick up from the north and continue into the morning, he said.

Bismarck and Mandan can expect between 5 and 7 inches of snow by Wednesday morning, he said.

"I wouldn't be surprised if we pick up eight inches," he said.

Jamestown, LaMoure, Ashley and Wishek could receive between eight and 10 inches of snow, he said.