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On Saturday January 31, on his 66th birthday, Rev Patrick Towers, will retire as Rector of St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church. In the nine years he has been Rector he has played an important role in Galway’s civic life and been one of its most active clergymen.

After almost two years in planning, Athlone Town Council has finally given the green light for a new €3.5 million art gallery.

What are your priorities for the New Year? To move house, save money, take up a new sport, lose weight or to find more me-time?

It was a historic week for St Anthony’s special school in Castlebar which this week saw its biggest ever graduating class leave the school. Ten students, three of whom have been in the school for 12 years and the others also there for long periods of time, were rewarded with a special graduation Mass and presentation. Fiona Byrne, principal of St Anthony’s, was delighted with the achievement of her graduating class. “It is the biggest class we have ever had leave the school,” she said. “Most of them have been with us since we were very young. It was very emotional, because of the emotional ties and attachments they build up between the students and the teachers through the years who work together for years.”

Moving from primary to secondary school can signal major change for many children. Twelve year olds who were until recently seniors in primary school become juniors overnight again.

One of the most outspoken critics of the local health service was this week selected as the chairperson of the HSE West’s regional health forum at its meeting in Merlin Park Hospital.

The developing world charity GOAL is urging local sports fans to wear their favourite team colours to school or work tomorrow (Friday) and raise money for some of the world’s poorest people.