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While COVID-19 has taken centre-stage here in Ireland - including shaping debate about Government formation - and there has been a sense of collective effort by all aspects of our polity, other countries, like the USA, have a rather different dynamic.

Athlone Film Club reels out their first film of the new year when the popular club screens the funny, moving and unique 'Woman at War' in the Dean Crowe Theatre on Tuesday, January 14, at 8pm.

The Galway Black Dragon Kickboxing Club celebrated huge success at the recent Unified World Championships in Tuscany.

Loughrea company, Neylons Facility Management, is putting itself and its staff on the map with its unique “Academy for Growth”.

Among the many religious pastors in Galway, Fr Tudor Ghita of the Romanian Orthodox church is surely one of the most remarkable. We had first arranged to meet in the bar of NUIG, because Fr Tudor works as a kitchen porter there. An apologetic phone call from him told me he could not meet because he was required to serve as a translator at a court case. And when I suggested we might meet or chat later he informed me he was working for a local pizza company from teatime onwards. It is all a far cry from the nine to five routines of our Catholic priests.

Galway kickboxers enjoyed success at the recent world championships despite being caught in a suspected terror attack.

Chernobyl Children International Castlebar Branch is hosting a fashion show in the TF Royal Castlebar on Wednesday, October 4. They will be joined on the night by Adi Roche, voluntary CEO, Chernobyl Children International, who will highlight the work the organisation has been doing in Vesnova Children’s Mental Asylum as well as other programmes in the Chernobyl regions of Belarus, Ukraine, and Western Russia. She will be joined by special guests Sandra Ganley (Mayo Rose) and Niamh Elwood (Galway Rose).

The new digital accelerator and investment programme NDRC at PorterShed is kicking off this week with 10 new digital startups moving into the Eyre Square base as part of the programme over the next three months.

Moate slugger Joe Ward claimed an unprecedented third European gold medal last Saturday at the European Championships in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

A trip to North Korea; an adventure to Afghanistan; or a sojourn to Somalia are most likely not the types of holidays of which most Irish people are dreaming. Yet it is all in a day’s work for Renmore native Shane Horan who leads tour groups to these countries, as well as many other places “that your mother would rather you stay away from.”