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"We must sow terror in the hearts of the Irish people," a senior Irish politician told Irish Independent journalist James Downey in 2001, explaining how the Republic's Government would reverse the people's No vote to the EU's Nice Treaty that year, and turn it into a Yes vote for the same treaty the year after.

ACTOR/COMEDIAN Rory O’Hanlon, has “a joke every 30 seconds", according to The Irish Times - a rather good quality for a comedian to have, as Galway is about to discover.

It has been a busy 12 months at the ballot boxes – General Elections in Ireland and Britain, a landmark vote to introduce same-sex marriage in the Republic. Each has been noteworthy, historic, and in some cases seismic but, as Insider has noted for some time, the biggest electoral event facing Ireland in 2016 is Britain's upcoming EU membership referendum on June 23.

The most amusing observation concerning February's General Election results came from a satirical website. It ran a shock headline claiming health officials were deeply worried about a sharp rise in Alzheimer’s among the Irish population, as indicated by the doubling of support for Fianna Fáil.

It has never happened before that an IFA President was elected on the first count, but such was Joe Healy’s landslide victory that he exceeded the quota, taking more than 14,000 votes, a whopping 50 per cent of the electorate. It really was a stunning victory and it was obvious the Athenry dairy farmer’s message had resonated right across the country.

Athenry-based online entrepreneur Martha Fraser is busy putting the final touches to the line-up for The Shine Adventure Workshop, shineadventure.com, one day online marketing event, which takes place this Saturday April 16 in The Meyrick Hotel, Galway.

Custom House Studios is hosting a gallery talk with Mary Kelly on Friday April 15 at 2.30pm.

Weather change in Ireland is the theme of the second Climate Congress to be hosted at NUI Galway next week.

A Galway man who is based in Brussels for the past 10 years says he will have to consider moving home due to the ongoing security threat in the Belgian capital.

Imam Hafiz Saddiq of the Athlone Islamic Centre has joined other Muslim leaders from around Ireland in condemning the attacks which took place last week in Brussels.