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All four Galway West TDs were in Dublin Castle on Tuesday night to celebrate their former constituency colleague’s elevation to the presidency, plus at least one county councillor who aspires to take her seat.

At the AI and Future of Work event held in Galway last Thursday night, one common theme was consistent across the presentations and discussions. Would Artificial Intelligence replace white collar work?

The “AI & Future of Work” event will take place on the University campus on Thursday October 30 at 6:15pm.

The prestigious annual Irish Law Awards event took place on Friday June 14 hosting in excess of 500 members of the legal profession for an event in the Convention Centre, Dublin. The Irish law awards, sponsored by Dye & Durham Corporation, recognises the remarkable achievements of legal professionals across Ireland. There are 19 judges on the judging panel, many of whom are members of the profession themselves. The master of ceremonies on the night was Ivan Yates, the well-known broadcaster, businessman and former politician.

Galway dairy farmer and artisan cheese producer, Teresa Roche, was crowned Best Artisan Dairy Cheese 2024 winner at the second National Dairy Awards on Thursday night in the Midlands Park Hotel, Portlaoise.

Callan Tansey Solicitors which has an office in Galway, have won Medical Negligence/Personal Injury law firm of the year at the 2021 Irish Law Awards.

There is great mourning this week over the death of Jack Charlton. But it is mourning mixed with reminiscences, all of them happy ones, of when Jack was in charge of the Irish soccer team and the wonderful spirit it engendered in the Irish people of all ages.

We had marvellous hurling matches on Saturday and Sunday and it was great. They were on RTÉ both days which meant I didn’t have to go out to visit to see either of them, but could sit in my chair in my own home and revel in the sport of it.

I’m going to begin this column with really interesting creative and exciting news. Last Friday night I was invited to launch a book called Tales from the Heart – New Creative Writing from Athlone Institute of Technology. Now, this is a compilation by Mick Donnellan of nineteen writers who attended his creative writing course for the last number of months. The course is conducted under the aegis of the Department of Lifelong Learning in Athlone IT.

Well, well, so much has happened in the last seven days that it truly is difficult to know where to begin, or on what topic. But we’ll start with a good one, the St. Patrick’s Day parade which was held in Athlone on the Saturday, March 16, rather than on the 17th. There was a lot of Facebook criticism about the decision to shift back to the Saturday, but the volunteer committee who are the backbone of the parade arrangements stuck to their guns, and it turned out to be a great success.