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Friday October 30 is a date that will be remembered in the O’Donnellan & Joyce offices for many years to come. With more than 4,000 people tuning in to watch the live stream property auction, this has been the most successful auction to date in 2020 for the Galway based auction house.

The manner in which a ruthlessly determined Galway side swatted away the surprisingly tame Wexford challenge last Saturday night in Croke Park has reignited hopes that the Tribesmen have realistic ambitions for a second Liam McCarthy triumph in four years.

Padraic Joyce’s Galway will move straight into the Connacht final after Sligo were forced to withdraw from the championship campaign due to Covid-19.

One recent evening Insider watched the 1967 Jean-Luc Godard film La Chinoise in which a small group of French students sit around their apartment, located in what is described as a “workers’ district”, and engage in theatrical discussions about how they must overthrow the bourgeoise and, in particular, the hierarchal French university system which saw students as passive receivers of knowledge handed down by their god-like professors, rather than participants in a dialectical exchange in which both students and teachers learn from each other and grow as a result. No one, with the exception of chairman Mao, is radical enough for most of these students. The French Communist Party which, to draw an Irish parallel, would have been more or less the political equivalent of present day Sinn Féin, is condemned as hopelessly “revisionist”. The Soviet Union, in particular its then president, the now largely forgotten Mr Kosygin, is convicted by the students at their kitchen table discussions of failing to do enough to support the Vietnamese in their war against Lyndon Johnson. And the French working class, with whom said kitchen table debaters absolutely sympathise, are seen as hopelessly passive. In a mix of desperation, madness, and idealism, the students decide to mount a campaign of terrorism, which will involve them doing something they have singularly failed to do for most of the film; getting up from that kitchen table and going outside. They plan to kill the visiting Soviet minister for culture who has been invited by President de Gaulle’s own culture minister, the novelist and decayed Stalinist intellectual Andre Malraux, to open a new wing of the university. After that, they hope to bomb the Sorbonne in the belief that this will spark a revolution. Insider is against blowing up universities. Partly because he knows such actions more often provoke backlash than revolution. But also because Insider happens to teach at a university and coming out in favour of blowing up universities might lead to an awkward email from one’s department head.

The findings from the Simon Community’s Locked Out of The Market survey were not surprising says Sinn Féin TD for Galway West/South Mayo Mairéad Farrell.

Sight loss charity, Fighting Blindness, is hosting their final 'Living with Sight Loss' course of 2020.

Division status retained, Westmeath concluded their Allianz National Football League campaign in Newbridge on Saturday afternoon, a five point loss to Kildare ensuring that the glimmer of promotion hope was erased come the shrill of the final whistle.

With the nation being encouraged to avail of staycation breaks, the Hodson Bay Hotel Group has special offers to entice this autumn season!

In the Republic of Ireland in 2019, Samaritans answered 431,871 telephone calls and close to 20,000 emails. More than 4,000 people received face-to-face emotional support in branches or at festivals across the country.