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President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, will be out and about in Galway today for a series of engagements.

Dear Galway First,

There were many nervous Fianna Fáilers in Salthill last Wednesday and they will continue to be nervous over the Christmas period as their political future and fate is decided.

Galway Atlantaquaria, supported by the Marine Institute, will be holding a packed programme of events for Science Week Ireland.

CAROL LANGSTAFF’S award-winning Flock Dance Company will hold classes in the Galway Rowing Club and Briget’s Garden.

More than 60,000 calls have been received by Senior Help Line which is celebrating its 10th anniversary with its first ever national conference in Galway.

As his side made the longer than normal trek back to the dressing room from the pitch in Dangan after subsiding to a five point defeat at the hands of NUIG, John O’Mahony faced the first of his interrogations at the hands of the hungry press core on the 50m line of the college pitch. After getting his first competitive view of his side for 2009 and how the new rules regarding yellow cards would play out, he held court over what he had just seen for the previous 60 minutes. Over the course of the game five players, two from Mayo and three from NUIG, were shown the line for picking up yellow cards, one as early as the eighth minute when Greg Begley was sent to the line for a clumsy challenge on Billy Joe Padden. “I believe the GAA are not going to change them because managers are saying they want them changed, but we have a meeting in the middle of January and I'll do my talking there. There will need to be some tweaking on them, the first lad to get sent off for NUIG my reading of it initially is it's a yellow card if you pull down a player, and will that lead to people appearing to be pulled down or fall and get a lad sent off. We'll give them a chance and see, if it adds to free flowing football then it's always a positive, but we'll have to hold our fire and see,” said O’Mahony.

A better festive season for everyone is the aim of COPE Galway who launched its Christmas initiatives yesterday.

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are anxious to find candidates in the run up to the local elections and are canvassing a number of personalities.

Over the past couple of months respect has certainly been earned by Galway United, but it is points rather than praise that are needed in the final three weeks of a critical campaign.