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With friends and family working and living away The Skeff and Karma are offering St Stephen’s Night as the place for friends to reunite and catch up in the one place. Renowned for the graduation celebrations of college friends, Karma and The Skeff Bar are appealing to even more people than just college students, with secondary schools all over Galway city and county being called upon.

“Much done, a lot more to do,”says Moycullen men’s basketball coach Enda Byrt after his side finished the first half of the season with a loss to pacesetters UL Eagles.

THE POETS Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars will host creative writing classes in poetry, fiction, and memoir writing in the GTI and GMIT in the New Year.

Even though mistletoe is not native to Ireland it has long been associated with Christmas here. The tangled green plant, with its soft white berries, has been introduced in some Irish counties (grafted onto apple trees), and was being sold in basket fulls at the Galway market last December.

Gardaí have appealed to residents and businesses in Shantalla and Newcastle to check their CCTV systems for footage of an attacker who broke into the home of an elderly woman and attacked her in the early hours of New Year’s Day.

Last year was one to forget in terms of crime in the city. In the Spring, we had to listen to the harrowing details of how Manuela Riedo met her end. In the midst of the Volvo Ocean race, we had the killing of young Kieran Cunningham on a night out with his pals. As I write this, another young man fights for his life in a Dublin hospital after being assaulted in the city at the end of the year.

Galway’s Cases Wine Warehouse has been named the Best Wine Warehouse in Ireland in the annual Sunday Business Post Wine Awards announced this week.

The Galway Alliance Against War will be joining the monthly vigil which takes place at Shannon Airport on the second Sunday of every month from 2pm to 3pm.

If your ambition for 2010 is to learn Irish, improve, or gain an internationally recognised qualification in the language, then Conradh na Gaeilge has the class for you.

For the second time since the New Year, the weather is playing havoc with Connacht’s Magners League campaign.