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I met someone the other day who told me wide-eyed that she had never met anyone who didn’t have a job. In the two and a bit decades that she’d been on this earth, people losing their jobs just weren’t known to her. And that is how it has been for many people who have grown up seeing jobs as disposable as weekly contact lenses. If it was irritating you, you just flung it away and tried another. But a harsh reality is about to set in for us all which will see us all soon know a lot of people without jobs. Or be without jobs ourselves.

Athlone Chamber is to host an interactive business workshop entitled ‘Leading for Survival’ on Wednesday, February 11 at the Athlone Springs Hotel.

During my first year in charge of Mayo in 1995/6 it was decided that we should take that year’s national league campaign seriously. We were playing in Division 3 at the time and I can assure you we had some right battles up and down the country squeezing narrow victories over some mediocre opposition in order to secure promotion. We made the play offs and managed to take a major scalp in the quarter final with a great victory over Meath in Hyde Park, Roscommon. We went to Croke Park to play Derry in the semi-final and were comprehensively beaten by what was then an exceptionally talented Derry side. In fact we decided before we left Dublin after that defeat that we would work our socks off for a few weeks and look for another game against the same opposition in order to benchmark and progress.

The elected members of Castlebar Town Council welcomed the progress on the refurbishment of the Main Street in the town.

Jamie Murphy (11) from Graiguenamanagh who underwent life saving surgery less than two weeks ago, has returned home after her lengthy ordeal safe and well.

League football can be a grind when results aren’t agreeable so Mervue United will be especially eager to arrest a losing sequence at Terryland Park tomorrow night. That Finn Harps, in the Premier Division last year, are the visitors merely adds to the task.

On Friday April 3 people will be treated to a truly superb concert which will take place in the Radisson SAS Hotel in Athlone. For one night only people have the opportunity to forget all the bad news that seems to be surrounding us and enjoy a fantastic line-up of artists.

For what seems like forever now, there’s been nothing but misery wherever we turned. Job losses, out of control finances, political ineptitude, murder again in Northern Ireland and public unrest. And then all of a sudden, the sun comes out on Patrick’s Day, a decent Kilkenny parade, two Offaly men share some weed in the White House and a feelgood factor returns to the Emerald Isle, begorragh!

And now it’s over. When they turn the key and step in, the house seems emptier. It was quiet before they left for Ireland, but now, if it was at all possible, it seems to have lost even more of its heartbeat. The clock ticks in the background — its tick hitting a false note of optimism, its tock emphasising the silence. They look at the door, and sob inside and wish that for just one more time, it would swing open and their bouncy happy daughter would come back in through it. Closure is sometimes seen as the end of a journey, but often it is just a mythical void. The pain in their chests that comes with every waking moment of the horrific realisation has not abated, as they thought it might. Now, alone together for the first time in weeks, they realise that often closure is the beginning of the journey and not an imagined end. Now, the hard work begins. The bit where the desire for justice has left them unfulfilled, the hole in their hearts just too large.

Jaguar Land Rover tells us it has been exploring new opportunities to distribute its vehicles following the sale of the company by Ford to Tata Motors Limited.