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Handing over millions of euro of local government assets to Irish Water is “pure robbery”, and a “step towards the privatisation of our water” supply.

Galway is now home to a local chapter of the premier entrepreneurial business growth organization in the World. The Galway GKIC Monthly Marketing and Business-Building Summit announces its kick-off meeting on Thursday, January 9 at 7pm in the Ballybane Enterprise Centre, Ballybane.

EXHIBITIONS FEATURING works from established artists to students and an exhibition of notebooks by Will Self and John Rocha, open and are running in Galway this month.

Let JCI Mayo help you jingle your way through Christmas looking and feeling your best. On Thursday November 28, JCI Mayo is starting off the Christmas season with tips and advice on party hair and make-up, beauty tips for the run up to Christmas and staying stress free this season.

A very successful networking event was held at the end of October, in the Harlequin Hotel, Castlebar. The event was hosted by Mayo Community Futures and the Rural Alliances EU project from Mayo County Council. Local communities which had participated in the Community Futures community planning programme and the recently formed Rural Alliances came together to share ideas and learn from their individual experiences. The event was open to all communities which had participated in the Mayo Community Futures programme, Rural Alliances, County Community Forum members, and members of the Community Futures management sub-committee, and was well attended on the night.

Rev Sahr Yambasu, the former minister for Galway’s United Presbyterian and Methodist Church will return to the city next week to launch his autobiography.

Q: I went to an interview recently and going grand with all the general questions – my attitude, my ambitions, and all of that stuff. But then one of the panel, who had been silent until then, swung into action. He fired five technical questions at me. All five landed like crunching blows to the solar plexus. I wasn’t prepared for that. My question is not really a question, but a word of advice – know the stuff you’re meant to know about your job, they may just put you on the spot. I didn’t get the job. But I’ve dusted myself down and I’m ready to go back into the ring again. (KP, email)

Derek Reilly, well known Belmullet businessman, has been elected as the 2014 president of JCI Ireland (Junior Chamber International). Mr Reilly recently returned from Japan Leadership Academy and the JCI Malta National Convention where he was the guest speaker and trainer.

The Convention on the Constitution is preparing to hold its first meeting west of the Shannon in Galway next week. The meeting will take place in NUI Galway (Áras Moyola Lecture Theatre, North Campus) on October 30 at 7.30pm, and Galway citizens have been invited to attend.

A series of five information evenings entitled Gatekeepers: Community Mental Health Promotion Programme will be taking place in Athlone during October and November starting on Thursday October 17 at 7.30pm.