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This election marks the end of an era for Galway Labour. Michael D Higgins is hopefully heading for the greener pastures of the Phoenix Park. What may prove to be a gain for Ireland is certainly a loss for the Labour Party. For many on the Left Michael D represented the party’s “conscience”.

You cannot buy experience, and it is one of the most valuable commodities a team can have going into an All-Ireland final, and St James’ captain on Saturday evening is a man with oodles of it.

Grab hold of your stopcock. Make sure your ballcock is floating. Now relax there in the dark of the attic.

Leinster intermediate hurling champions Dicksboro will travel to London this weekend to play Kilburn Gaels in the AIB GAA Hurling All-Ireland Intermediate Club Championship quarter-final.

THE ACTOR Peter O’Toole and director John Huston have been associated with County Galway for more than six decades.

People in Co Kilkenny bought €28,281 worth of Trócaire Christmas gifts last year and the Irish development agency is hoping that more people in the county will make buying a Global Gift part of their Christmas traditions this year.

THE FULL Disconauts line is back with DJs Padraic and Keith, set to be joined by percussionist Mark Logan, trumpeter Ben Edwards, saxman Steve Hamilton, and bass tromboneist Mike Kearsey.

The decision this week by the city council to overwhelmingly endorse the Christmas Market planned for Eyre Square next month is one that should be welcomed by all locals, despite prophecies of doom issued from some quarters that Galway is not a suitable venue in which to hold it.

I didn’t have a complicated life. I was run of the mill, still am. ‘D’ya fancy livin in England, there’s a secondment up for grabs in Windsor for six months’. It was one of those fleeting comments in June 2009. ‘Are ya jokin, the kids would never cope’. Sure what would we want livin’ over there, Galway was home. We had made our move back from Dublin. We were happy, ploddin along, wingin it. But when the boss highly recommends he considers it, I know there may be trouble ahead but without the moonlight and love and romance. More like, fasten yer seatbelts, turbulence to come.

Last Monday saw the launch of the novel Kilkenny Chamber Street Ambassador Programme.