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It’s so easy to be on a downer; no money, no work (or an unpleasant job), horrible weather, forgot to lose that stone before Christmas, have to work New Year’s Eve, gas bill arrived. There’s no doubting it, it’s easy to get bogged down in life.

There might be some pre Christmas pleasantries before kick off in Terryland Park tonight, but once the whistle is blown it’s do or die for the Mayo League’s Oscar Traynor Cup team. Following on from their win over the Inishowen league in the opening round of the competition, progression to the knock out stages of the competition is all down to this game for both sides. A draw will do Mayo thanks to their superior goal difference, but that’s something Mayo manager Brendan O’Connor is not thinking about. “Yah, a draw will do us on Friday night, but we are not going to approach the game like that at all, we’re going out to win on Friday night. If you go looking for a draw at the start of a game you are just setting yourself up for a fall, if we get it all and good, but we are going out to win the game.”

2009 wasn’t a great year for most. Dole queues lengthened. People who never dreamed they would become a statistic joined the live register. Month in, month out, we reported increases in unemployment citing stats and figures. But what we must remember is you aren’t a statistic. You are so much more than that. You have contributed to Ireland’s reputation as a highly skilled nation. Gone is the tiger, but your worth and your importance are what must be cherished and reinvested in next year.

IT WAS all the way back in 1979 that Renmore staged its first panto and in the decades since the show has gone from strength to strength and today it is one of the highlights of Galway’s Christmas season.

Top Irish comedian Jon Kenny is guaranteed to bring a ray of comic sunshine to the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday January 28 at 8pm with his sparkling new show I’m Not Says I… I’m Fine.

It’s a bit cold out if you haven’t noticed. While we here in the west have been slipping and sliding our way around the county since the Christmas it seems those in government have finally noticed we may be having a bit of a problem. A snow storm in the Dublin area brought the capital to a standstill on Wednesday evening, with traffic backed up all around the city. So lo and behold, yesterday morning RTÉ reported on its website that a Government emergency response committee was meeting in Dublin to discuss the problems caused by the cold snap. So once again it took something to happen in the capital for the departments of transport, environment, health, education, and the Taoiseach to get together and have a chat about what’s going on around the country.

The Prince Bar has launched a ‘Don’t Stay In’ campaign on social networking site facebook. We all know when January comes around that staying in is often the preferred option, but The Prince Bar has some great offers with its campaign and is urging ‘Don’t Stay in!’.

MALCOLM MIDDLETON may have announced he’s taking a break from recording solo albums for a while, but he’s not finished touring and this first rate songwriter is coming to Galway at the end of the month.

Poor old Batt. He was damned if he did and damned if he didn’t, so he did and took all the damnation that was thrown at him and then changed his mind in case there wasn’t enough damning.

St John’s Senior School is to reopen today (Friday) to 207 students despite devastating flooding at the premises over the past week.