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“Perhaps I should have ran for the county council before when I was a bit younger, but I have enjoyed my four and a half years so far and I’m looking forward to seeing out the last few months.” With the official news breaking this week that Fine Gael party whip Paddy McGuinness would not be running for re-election, it brings to an end the public life for a second time of the popular County Monaghan native. McGuinness, who had stepped away from public life before after a number of terms on Castlebar Town Council, was tempted back into public life when Enda Kenny came calling before the last local elections. “I had come in to do a job last time around and I was very tempted to stay on, but I had made a decision before that I would be doing one term and I had to stick with it.” The job as McGuinness saw it was to help the party grow and bring them all together as one for the term of the council which, for the most part, he has done very successfully.

PJ Gallagher, (pictured) the undisputed star of Naked Camera, and creator of the memorable characters Jake Stevens and The Dirty Auld Wan, plays the Laughter Lounge in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday at 9pm. Support is from Bob Hennigan and Cathal Murray. The guest MC is Paddy Courtney. Tickets are available from the Róisín Dubh and Zhivago.

OLIVER CROMWELL is a hugely divisive figure. In Ireland his opinion poll ratings remain even lower than those of soon-to-be-former president George W Bush and only slightly higher than those of that famous Austrian advocate of a very different type of European unity: the late Adolf Hitler.

DIDO HAS just released her new album Safe Trip Home (Sony BMG) and the Galway Advertiser has five copies to give away.

SECOND AGE Theatre Company makes its annual visit to the Town Hall in the first week of February with its production of one of the greatest of Shakespeare’s plays; King Lear.

Results from the men’s 18 hole singles are as follows: 1 Roddy McMyler (15) 40 points; 2 Wayne Byrne (19) 39 points; Gross Michael Buggy (+1) 37 points; 3 Declan MacAssey (13) 38 points; Padraig Curry (10) 32 points.

“The main trouble is there are too many people who don’t know where they’re going and they want to get there too fast.”  Sounds like a commentary on modern life particularly as we approach Christmas, but it’s actually a quote from the 1947 classic film The Bishop’s Wife, staring Cary Grant.

A proposal by Fine Gael Councillor Michelle Mulherin for Mayo County Council to award a civic reception to Liam and Noel Gallagher from the band Oasis, kicked off a furious debate at the monthly meeting of Mayo County Council this week.

Silver Hill Foods, Europe’s premium hand prepared duck company, is searching for Ireland’s greatest duck dishes.