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When Sabina Higgins welcomes you into her private office before a long-scheduled interview, immaculately turned out in an azure, roll-neck woollen dress with anti-war and global sustainability badges pinned to her shoulder, you know she means business.

Waiting outside the office of the Irish Times’ managing director, one might expect a snotty Moneypenny to usher you into a dark, wood-panelled study where a stern Judi Dench as M, in James Bond, will be enthroned at a leathered desk, waiting to receive, with a thousand-yard death stare.

Pauline Bliss, who hosts the Slimming World group in St Kieran's Community Centre, Athlone, this week stated that with over 50 years experience in food, building a physically active lifestyle and the psychology of mindset and behaviour change for lasting weight loss is now very much possible.

Third year University of Galway medical student, Cormac Kinsella was laid to rest in his home village of Ballon, Co Carlow on December 22.

by Declan Varley

The members of national-award-winning Claremorris Musical Society are back doing what they do best!

Tributes were being paid across the country last night to former Galway Mayor and city businessman John Mulholland who passed away on Wednesday, aged 76.

Cities and places are the products of those who live there, who shape the communities, who by their deeds and actions influence the way things get done. Galway, having had its own makeover from a provincial trading town to a city of affluence and attitude, is a patchwork quilt formed from the colourful threads of all those who have come here and made an impact.

The late Billy Naughton, College Road, said he spluttered into his cup of tea, when he instantly recognised the upper-class, nasal drawl, of William Joyce reporting continuous Nazi victories on Radio Hamburg, Reichsrundfunk, during its English-language broadcast in October 1939. He was ridiculed as ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ and was the butt of Musical Hall jokes, yet he was listened to and despised for his clever mix of fact and lies.

Mitchell Henry’s final days in Kylemore were sad ones. His adored wife Margaret had died at 45 years-of-age, and rested in a simple brick mausoleum in the grounds of his palatial Kylemore Castle. His political life, into which he put a great deal of personal effort, advocating on behalf of all Irish tenants the rights for them to own their own land, was out manoeuvred by Charles Stewart Parnell and the Land League. Henry described the Land League methods as ‘dishonest, demoralising and unchristian’. He probably was not surprised to lose his Galway seat in the general election of 1885. He blamed ‘Parnalite intimidation’.