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You can smell the election now... not in the way you smell it after four days of counting in a cramped community centre somewhere, but in the air, there’s a real sense of people wanting to be part of our new Councils.

In an exclusive interview with the Galway Advertiser, Sabina Higgins has confirmed that she and husband Michael D Higgins plan to return to Galway City when his term ends next year.

It’s set to be a fairy tale of The Pogues’ music at Monroe’s Live on Saturday, March 30, as Belfast’s Rapparees bring their renowned tribute show to Galway.

Suffering is not a zero sum game between Israel and Gaza, but facts matter, if only to redress the balance.

AIB, proud partner of the GOAL Mile, is calling on local GAA communities to ‘Step Up Together’ and take part in the GOAL Mile this festive season with their friends and families.

It is not often that the one story dominates all the world’s headlines. We got a sense of it a few years back when we were all under the curse of Covid. For the first time, perhaps ever, the entire globe was at the mercy of the one ailment; the entire global news cycle carrying the same, but localised versions of the same story. We all had variations of the one restrictions; we lived our lives in the manner that the regulators dicated.

There is a pain deep in the pits of our stomachs this week. With the winter rains and dark clouds marking the time of year when nature resets itself for the renewal of the growing cycle, the light that gives us hope and energy is in scarce supply. It is a time when sadness is accentuated, when you grapple to find the good in things.

Bon Secours Health System (BSHS), which includes Bon Secours Hospital Galway, has launched a groundbreaking €25 million clinical transformation project with healthtech firm MEDITECH which is to connect its entire hospital network using one electronic healthcare record (EHR).

Normally, the world inhabited by professional golfers would not enter the concerns of mere mortals. From the outside, it seems idyllic; Travel, exercise, competition, excellence, the feeling of representing yourself in the best light, and your country or continent whenever the need arises. No matter what side of the fence you are on with this, we are not trying to create sympathy for those who live such an elite life. And good luck to them, they work hard and deserve whatever success they have.

Looking at the photograph of Emily Anderson on this page, the only formal portrait of her other than some distant group shots, it is difficult to imagine that this interesting Galway woman was probably the best codebreaker in the British Secret Service during the First and Second World Wars.