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This week, I feel very much like a character in Juno and the Paycock, the famous play by Sean O’Casey.

I know, readers, that you are probably fed up with talk of the weather, but we simply have to talk more about it!

I am compiling my column this week late on Tuesday night and, so far, we have not had storm Emma or, indeed, storm anything except for very cold weather and some light snow.

So many dreadful things appear to be happening throughout the world now.

Well, what a weekend of rugby we have just had. I do not think anyone who watched it will ever forget Johnny Sexton and, in the dying minutes of the game, the wonderful drop goal he executed.

Insider is still recovering from what was a dramatic end to 2017 - the State narrowly avoiding a Christmas election; Ireland being at the centre of the standoff at the end of Phase 1 of the Brexit negotiations; and locally a SF implosion in Galway West. It was a whirlwind few weeks, and a period that offered wildly contrasting fortunes for the main political players. The Christmas break was badly needed by all.

Well, we all know Christmas is coming, but before that comes about, so much has happened in the past week that it is difficult to know quite where to begin.

Well, so much happened in the last week, and most of it during the weekend.

FOLLOWING THE release of the 'Serve The Rich' single, Manchester indie-rock/post-punk band PINS hit the road for a European tour, with four dates in Ireland, including one in Galway.

Yes, Dublin won out over Mayo in the women’s GAA final last Sunday, but there were positives to this contest, which makes it different.