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It is quite ironic that for a city so perched on the western edge of Europe that in economic terms we have spent such little time in actually looking out to sea. Perhaps back in the Middle Ages, when the city was accessed easier by the water, we looked out to sea for protective reasons, to ward off any dangers that might come in on the overnight tide.

The importance of the potential of the wind energy industry to Galway and the west will be underlined next week when Taoiseach Micheal Martin will address a major conference being held in the city to explore the benefits of an industry that could create 3,000 jobs locally over the next decade.

Mayo Fianna Fáil TD Dara Calleary has hailed the sod-turning on the N5 Ballaghaderreen to Scramrogue Road Project as a ‘huge day’ for Mayo and Roscommon.

Slowly, if tentatively, we are returning to a life more reminiscent of pre-Covid times, but with necessary adaptions.

Study & Careers director, Dr. Fidelma Healy Eames, is to interview Taoiseach Micheal Martin in her next live interview in the #InspiringIreland #InspiringStudents series.

The idea of limiting indoor hospitality to those who have been fully vaccinated, or who have recovered from Covid-19 is “neither workable or policeable”.

For The Insider, engagement with the arts in 2020 often meant watching them from my sitting room with a cup of tea - or a G&T - in front of me, and, sadly, given the continuing uncertainties surrounding the rollout of the nation’s Covid-19 vaccination programme, that situation might remain unchanged for months to come.

Mayo County Council has apologised this week for its role in the operation of mother and baby homes and the suffering endured by those who were placed in the homes.

The Sisters of Bon Secours who ran the Tuam Mother and Baby's Home for almost 40 years said last evening that they did not live up to their Christianity when doing so, adding that they also acknowledge that the manner in which infants were buried at the home was deeply disrespectful.

President Michael D Higgins has led the tributes to Galwaywoman Patricia Carrick after her death was announced yesterday.