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I had fully intended taking part myself, but at about 8.30 last Saturday morning I got cold feet and cancelled my booking for the comedy workshop at Cleeres. The instructor, Padraig Hyland, was taking the group of comedy novices for an eight hour session and then putting them on the stage at 7pm to make their standup comedy debut.

The Galway Arts Festival has become such an enormous event (in fact it is now an international event of significance), that it is a bit like the Lisbon Treaty: You can’t see all of it; and while many of us see its value to the community, there are parts of it I don’t quite like.

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Sunday morning and the sun is shining after Saturday’s rain. The sky is that clear October blue, the air tastes of autumn. The drive over the Quincentennial Bridge, past the military bulk of the CT Electric building, the utilitarian Mulvoy Park, all along the roundabouts and left, past the industrial estates, past the brown blockhouse Telecom building, takes me into old Mervue.

The Fahey Sales Showjumping League is poised for a most dramatic final next weekend in Claregalway.

Children and gardens can be quite a vexed issue, both from the gardener’s perspective and from the child’s. On the one hand, footballs crashing through the borders, bald or muddy patches on the lawn, trees damaged by climbing or swinging from the branches, shortcuts taken through hedges, fruit canes denuded before any of the fruit can get to the kitchen can all make you tear your hair out. On the other, enforced lawn mowing and weeding when you’d rather be doing something far more interesting can engender boredom and resentment. Most important, of course, is the issue of safety in the garden, particularly with smaller children in mind, and especially if you have a pond or grow potentially poisonous plants. (I’ll look specifically at safety in the garden in a later column.)

They do say that opportunity never knocks twice and now that a vacuum has been created in Irish politics, I feel I am ideally placed to take full advantage. Line up, line up, you’re just in time for the launch of my new political party. It will change the mouldiness of civil war politics. It will make a positive contribution to Irish politics. It will be called Clann na Nobs (as in the gaeilge for the family of the no-bullshitters)

Plenty of photographs on the newspapers last weekend of people stuck at airports around Europe, due to the collapse of the tour operator XL.

The Finbar Hoban Presents event kicked off last Saturday night week with local Castlebar group Inverter bringing their own style of covers from ‘Born To be Wild’ to ‘Play That Funky Music White Boy’. Second on the bill on the night were The Rumours , with their influences drawn from such legendary bands as The Jam, The Stranglers, and the band’s excellent single ‘Keep it Going’ kept the crowd wanting more!

You’re organising a Christmas party for your co-workers or friends and you’re killing yourself trying to make it perfect? Don’t worry; you’ll make everyone excited about the party before it even starts, provided you pick a theme your colleagues will all stick to, including yourself of course. Don’t impose anything on them though, try to get everyone involved in coming up with a suitable theme.