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That’s what the ads in the Evening Herald or Evening Press usually said, but spacious usually meant enough room to swing a very small cat in a space with a bit of well worn carpet and a bed that doubled as a couch against one of the damp walls.

The 110 workers losing their jobs at Thermo King in Galway and the sheep farmers picketing outside the Department of Agriculture would be much more concerned with their future economic circumstances than with a possible second Lisbon Referendum.

“COMMUNISM IS the death of the soul. It is the organisation of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.” So said American politician Adlai E Stevenson. It is the Western view of Communism, but not necessarily the view of everyone who experienced life in a Communist country.

“When you’re a mother and you’re used to minding the kids at home and doing the sums there, it prepares you for doing the sums and the other kinds of work as a councillor.”

Or ham, sausages, rashers either, or so it seemed for a while.

You can almost see it - an Irish politician scolding his bold child with the threat of ‘I’ll send you to Declan Ganley if you don’t behave yourself!’

“If I saw Mr Haughey buried at midnight at a crossroads with a stake driven through his heart, politically speaking, I should continue to wear a clove of garlic around my neck, just in case.”

God knows all we Mayo folk could do with the odd dig-out, on the basis that for us the road to perdition is often littered with potholes and rabid dogs, but we have to say that even the most brass-necked of us had to hold our hands up and say the antics of Beverley Flynn left us all a bit red-faced this week.

Happy New Year Grassroots readers, here’s to a lively year of elections, referendums, recessions, and at least two by-elections for good measure. I hope our politicians enjoyed the Christmas rest in advance of all the above.

A three year campaign by Oranmore people, supported by local senator Fidelma Healy Eames, for the provision of a pedestrian crossing at Orantown Centre has finally paid off.