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It was Manchester airport, March 2008, and the flight to Galway had been delayed. Disgruntled passengers wandered through the departures terminal, concerned that Galway Airport might be closed by the time their plane landed. The complaints grew louder with the announcement of a further two hour delay. ‘All intending passengers’ were impatient and fed up. Well, almost all. There was one exception. In the midst of the unhappy throng, there was one person who would have more reason than most to complain and bemoan their predicament. Accompanied by her mother, Aileen, was a young Clarinbridge girl, who was returning home having just had re-construction surgery performed on her foot in a hospital in Sheffield. This was another staging post in what had been a series of operations carried out over a number of years in the English city. Amidst the doom and gloom of the delayed passengers, she stood out like a beacon of light. Smiling, friendly, warm and chatty, welcome to Katie O’Brien. She was twelve years of age.

Backers of the state of the art 40,000 sq ft film and TV studio to be built at the former Galway Airport at Carnmore have been given the green light to move to planning stage with the objective of being open for production next summer.

Health Services in County Galway have emphasised the importance of practising public health behaviours in light of the recent increase in COVID-19 cases in the west.

Health Services in County Galway have emphasised the importance of practising public health behaviours in light of the recent increase in COVID-19 cases in the west.

New film studios are expected to be constructed at the Galway Airport site, after the Galway City Council backed a plan to lease a portion of the land to Danú Media - a move that would represent a major boost to the creative arts industry in the west.

DESPITE ALL the obstacles the Covid-19 pandemic has put in the way, the 2021 Galway International Arts Festival has emerged triumphant, with an impressive, and exciting array of events for the autumn.

There is a Greek saying that a society becomes great when people plant trees, the shade of which they will never sit under. There have been many such people in Galway, and my hope is that there will be many more. Indeed, our society needs a constant flow of people whose unselfish actions make better the place they live and work.

There have been 2,203 new confirmed Covid-19 cases in Mayo over the two-week period from Wednesday, December 30, to Tuesday, January 12, according to the latest information at the time of this newspaper going to print.

As the country's acute hospital system comes under extreme pressure from rising Covid-19 numbers, the head of the local hospital group fears that the worst has yet to come.