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The gardening year is moving along nicely and hopefully you have been keeping busy, gardening that is!

The lines between spring, summer, and autumn have become severely blurred; indeed we have only the prospect of a somewhat mild winter left to give us any bit of solace. Sales in brollies and wellington boots have soared I’m sure, as scores of us trudge along to work sadly or dart between the drops on our way to the pub, desperately hoping our hair hasn’t turned to frizz in the meantime.

The body of a young Laois man on holiday in New Zealand was recovered in the Waikato River by police divers on Wednesday afternoon.

If you feel you have eaten a little too much over the Christmas period there is one sure way of burning off those excess calories and that is by taking part in the Castlecomer Wellie Race on New Year’s Day.

Galway often boasts of the huge crowds attracted to myriad events in this town, but the greatest congregation ever assembled in the west of Ireland gathered at a monster meeting in Shantallow over 150 years ago. The “Slidin’ Rock”, as it is now colloquially known, is the spot from which Daniel O’Connell delivered a towering oration, just two years before the Great Famine began.

Now the Christmas tree and decorations will soon be taken down and put away and the New Year’s celebrations are almost behind you, you are no doubt ready to start gardening again. Are you feeling motivated? I do hope so because there is much to be done.

This week is the first in a series of interviews with several head chefs of Galway’s restaurants. There are very few well known chefs in Ireland, but very often the person responsible for all the creativity in the kitchen is a behind the scenes person. So to find out a little more, Kevin and I chatted for a couple of hours over a coffee.

Connacht rugby will be boosted next season by the arrival of a former New Zealand u-21 outhalf.

Druid Theatre is currently undertaking the biggest tour of an Irish play in the history of modern theatre, as it is touring Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce across six countries and 16 cities.

Connacht Rugby could soon be boosted by the addition of a Super 14 backrow player from New Zealand.