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The Galway City Council is continuing discussions with the Galway Racecourse about operating a park and ride facility at Christmas.

A historian and a technologist walked into a bar... Well actually, they didn’t. In fact, the two of them have only met up face to face in the last week having spent the last year being remotely apart yet firmly at the centre of Irish publishing’s biggest success.

With less than 100 days to Christmas, Athlone Chamber of Commerce are looking for expressions of interest from local retailers and producers who have a suitable product and wish to reserve a log cabin at this year’s Christmas market to take place from December 17-19 inclusive.

If the pandemic has taught us anything, it is the importance of home. With successive lockdowns and work-from-home forcing us to spend more time than ever behind our own front doors, our homes have become offices, school rooms, gyms, and most importantly, sanctuaries from the uncertainty that has surrounded us for the past 18 months.

Having spent much of our year in lockdown desperately looking forward to summer, the end is imminently nigh.

Someone once said that everybody in life should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect but for the respect from others. On one hand, I am loath to burden people in public life with the pressure of being a role model. I recall the American basketball player, Charles Barkley saying he wasn’t a role model. “Just because, I can dunk a basketball, doesn’t mean I should raise your kids,” he said.

Having spent much of our year in lockdown desperately looking forward to summer and the possibility of freedom, summer now seems all too short. Already we are facing the usual overwhelming sense of September, and everything that it includes.

Jim Kavanagh’s Art School is starting a new term of classes from Monday next, September 6.

If there is one thing I would love gardeners to consider more often, it’s the need to be generous with your borders.

The outdoor dining and pedestrianisation measures in Galway city should not come to an end on September 30, but instead should be extended to Christmas.