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My mother, who religiously listened to the Gay Byrne Show, operated a kind of censorship. There were certain topics she did not want me to hear. For two hours, five days a week, she would shut the kitchen door, and listen to Gay with the volume turned down. On one occasion I came into the room. She asked: “What do you want?” Nobody needs an excuse to go into one’s kitchen, so I’d rather indignantly replied: “Nothin’.” “Well,” she said, “I’m busy.” And that meant scram.

This view of part of Father Griffin Road was taken from Father Burke Road c1955. In the foreground you can see the land being levelled and prepared for the building of the Technical School.

It is time to raid the attic for boxes of tinsel and trinkets and embark on the annual decorating ritual. While we cannot help you unravel the fairy lights, here are a few tips to make decorating more fun and less about finance this year.

Since retiring as a professional athlete, former World and Olympic champion and award-winning healthy cookbook author, Derval O’Rourke, has become a mother to two young children, Dafne and Archie, and set up her own business derval.ie.

Why not give the gift of a language this Christmas? Conradh na Gaeilge is running a special offer on all Irish language course vouchers until the end of December. For just €130 you can purchase a voucher for a 10 week Irish language course.

Monroe’s has been a cornerstone in the Westend of Galway City since 1964. Originally, the ‘New Manhattan Bar’, John and Margaret Monroe returned from New York City to open the bar to great excitement as the first Galway bar to have table service, a ‘Ladies Lounge’ and a ‘Singing Lounge’.

CHRISTMAS CROONERS, a night of festive favourites and Christmas hits, made famous by Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra, will be heard at the Town Hall Theatre.

THE GALWAY Baroque Singers will present Let There Be Light, a concert of Christmas and classical music on Friday December 13 at 8pm in St Joseph’s Church, Presentation Road.

CHARLES DICKENS' A Christmas Carol has enjoyed countless adaptations for stage and screen, and been copied and re-imagined numerous times since it was first published in 1843.

"'TWAS THE night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St Nicholas soon would be there..."