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If truth be told, I did it more for my three-year-old daughter than for myself. As the first evening of winter enveloped us last Sunday evening, I considered just how rare an occasion it would be to welcome home a president-elect to Galway. It might be something that we never again see in our lifetimes. But she might. Never before has any other Galway person of any age experienced it, so such an event might be like Halley’s comet.

The Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children will open its new Childline unit, the second largest in the country, in the city next month. It aims to answer more than 1,000 calls weekly.

It may not have the dramatic scale or numbers of Occupy Wall Street, but Occupy Galway in Eyre Square has become the subject of much interest, debate, and curiosity, as well as expressions of good will and solidarity between public and protester.

When I awoke in the middle of last night this saying was running through my head, and as I could not get it out of my mind, I got up and wrote it down and then continued to write this column. Funny how you can write some of the truest words in the silence of the night; I think it was Brendan Behan who once said, “write as if you are dead,” and in the dead of night is certainly the best time to do this.

Westmeath County Council says it may look at the proposal to open the council staff car park at weekends but there is no “grace period” for drivers.

Anyone who has got approval for one of the three housing grant schemes provided by Mayo County Council up to the end of April this year will be able to draw down the funding now, the members of the Claremorris Electoral Area committee were told this week.

The members of the cultural, education, and heritage SPC of Mayo County Council gave the go ahead this week for the Draft Development Plan for Mayo County Library to go to public consultation.

The cap on special needs assistants (SNAs) and the withdrawal of the appeals system for parents where special needs assistant hours are cut or discontinued is simply unjust, said Marian Harkin MEP. Ms Harkin has called for SNA hours to be maintained throughout the primary education sector.

The deaths last week of three heroin addicts in Kilkenny and one in Carlow has provoked an outpouring of grief from the local community, and has served to refocus public attention on community support services.

The members of the Ballina electoral area committee this week gave their unanimous approval to the council to bring a motion before the next full meeting of Mayo County Council to approve a lease between the local authority and Ballina Arts Centre Ltd for the new arts centre in the town.