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“I grew up in a Galway family steeped in manual labour, so if there was a book in my hand, I’d be asked why there wasn’t a shovel in it when I was fit for digging,” says writer Conor Montague. “I’d often be thinking up a story on the way to working on a site, because if the other fellas stopped for a listen, then you’d get a quick breather from the heavy, heavy work.”

Experimental artist Kristy Verenga has opened her ‘Who Am I?’ exhibition which combines media to explore the question at The Gallery Café in Gort. Kristy uses painting and sculpture to build the world that she calls home, these abstract and symbolic narratives are an expression of her daily experience.

Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) and an articulation agreement with Tunku Abdul Rahmen University of Management and Technology (TAR UMT) in Malaysia.

Local Fianna Fáil Minister of State for Trade Promotion, Digital and Company Regulation, Deputy Robert Troy, has departed for New Delhi and Mumbai, India as part of this year’s St. Patrick’s Day Ministerial missions, the first official visit to the country since 2019.

Well it’s been a busy week again, but to begin this column this week I’m going to start on a gentler note.

Galway will be among a number of cities participating today (Nov 30) in an Irish-led global commemorative event taking place at which organ donors and their families will be remembered, and their generosity acknowledged. This global event involves an inter-city gifting of stone sculpted candles, symbolising the light of humanity shone through donation, and will also include the reading of an open letter expressing the deep sense of appreciation and gratitude felt by society to organ donors and their families.

Seven leading tour operators from India have been visiting Westmeath this week on a fact-finding tour organised by Tourism Ireland in conjunction with Fáilte Ireland and Tourism NI.

One of the great obsessions after the war was how to come to terms with the ‘missing’ - the many thousands of young soldiers who were either vaporised, or blown to pieces, by high explosives; or were drowned and lost in the mud. Last week I tried to tell the heartbreaking search for their missing son Jack, by the Kiplings. For months they haunted hospitals, interviewed soldiers, even dropped leaflets on enemy territory, pleading for information. Even though the Somme still reveals bodies today, Jack Kipling was never found.