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As the festive season draws closer, here are essential festive tips from Croí to ensure you enjoy a healthy Christmas season.

As the festive season gets under way, here are some essential festive tips from Croí to ensure you enjoy a healthy Christmas season.

Such a busy agenda, with so many topics.

It struck me very strongly when I was beginning this column that many of the events of these few days are of a national and international variety.

Galway 2020 was launched in Brussels this week at an event attended by leading Belgian travel professionals and journalists, as well as those who were at the European Week of Regions and Cities in the Belgian capital.

The scene of the Sunday morning breakfast table in Biarritz at the beginning of the recent G7 summit was a sobering one for Irish viewers. President Donald Tump and prime minister Boris Johnson, leaders of the two countries that would traditionally be considered our main allies, egging each other on in pursuit of a hard Brexit that would be detrimental to this country.

Despite the constant Brexit talk on radio and television, and the miles of column inches in the press, one thing is never mentioned – it seems virtually impossible to leave the EU.

Local Fine Gael Councillor John Dolan has welcomed the support for his motion to sponsor one student from Westmeath in the Graduate.ie programme in the 2019/2020 school year.

RONAN FAGAN

Shannon today celebrates 80 years as a passenger airport.