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The Irish Heart Foundation’s expert health promotion team has created a handy Advent calendar of motivational tips and helpful reminders to steer the nation through the indulgent festive season without piling on the pounds and to stay healthy this December.

Gaillimh le Gaeilge, the organisation responsible for the promotion of the Irish language in Galway city, is delighted to see that local businesses and organisations are continuing to use the Irish language and making “An Ghaeilge” their business. New signage featuring the Irish language has appeared on our streets reinforcing and strengthening Galway’s unique and cultural image.

Around 80 of the State’s most vocal opponents gathered in Athlone last weekend in an effort to organise a unified front against the range of Government and EU initiatives to which they are opposed, but failed to do so on the day.

Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane is calling on the people of Castlebar to get out in support of the Ballyhea Bondholder Bailout Protest Group who will be marching in Castlebar on Saturday next. Since March 2011, this group have marched every Sunday without fail in Ballyhea, a small rural Cork village, to show their opposition and outrage at the indebting of the Irish people following the bank bailout.

Mayor of Athlone Cllr Jim Henson is to travel to Brussels in the coming weeks to formally accept the designation of Athlone as European Town of Sport for 2013.

Oscar Wilde’s dictum that ‘Youth is wasted on the young’ is the topic for the 2012 Europe Direct Soapbox Competition and Galwegians of all ages are being sought to take part.

Lucky me, I am blessed with my job here as food writer for the Mayo Advertiser.

The announcement yesterday of new rules for the taxi industry in Ireland will lead to more professionalism, will drive out rogue operators and will clean up the industry, according to MEP Jim Higgins.

Independent MEP Marian Harkin this week won her second consecutive MEP of the Year Award at a prizegiving ceremony in Brussels.

MEP Jim Higgins has hit out at EU plans to force farmers, who own tractors capable of doing speeds of more than 40km/h, to do a vehicle test in the same way that trucks are presently tested.