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While Labour will hold its 65th national convention in NUI Galway this weekend, the United Left Alliance Galway will hold a counter-conference to take a critical look at Labour and discuss alternatives for the Irish left.

Insider rarely tires of the vicissitudes of Galway politics. The city and county’s petty intrigues, feverish whisperings, internecine squabbles, and comical characters are usually enough to keep even the most amateur political observer entertained.

Labour will mark the 100th anniversary of its foundation next week when it holds its National Conference in Galway, but the United Left Alliance will hold a two-day counter-conference, in protest against Labour’s decisions in government.

With the deadline to pay the Household Charge fast approaching, Labour councillor Harry Barrett, has urged homeowners to make sure they are in fact liable to pay the charge. Homeowners must register and pay for the charge by March 31.

“How Ireland will adapt to the external international factors affecting it today” is the title of a joint Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)/MBA seminar taking place at the JE Cairnes School of Business & Economics, NUI Galway on Wednesday March 21 at 6.30pm.

“How Ireland will adapt to the external international factors affecting it today” is the title of a joint Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)/MBA seminar taking place at the JE Cairnes School of Business & Economics, NUI Galway on Wednesday March 21 at 6.30pm.

Older & Bolder has called on Kathleen Lynch, the Minister with responsibility for older people, to reassure people following suggestions from the IMF that vital supports for pensioners should be cut.

Galway students will hold a public demonstration against the planned increase of third-level fees, next week as part of a National Day of Action against education cuts.

“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians,” the former French president Charles De Gaulle once said. Indeed he would have been within his rights to substitute the word ‘dangerous’ for ‘serious’.

At a public seminar organised by the European Commission in Athlone this week, Economics Editor of the Irish Independent, Brendan Keenan, argued that, despite the fact that major political and institutional changes were still needed, the EU and the Eurozone countries have “moved back from the abyss of potential break-up”.