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With the Christmas market coming to an end in Eyre Square, having attracted tens of thousands of people to the city over the past three weeks, despite the inclement weather, the Galway Advertiser is asking shoppers across the city and county to concentrate their Christmas spend locally to save jobs and to preserve communities.

At this difficult economic time, many businesses are closing, and many local jobs are under threat. What is our response to be? Will we sit, moaning about the recession, and accepting it as a fait accompli which is out of our control? Will we wait for someone else to do something? Will we satisfy ourselves by criticising the developers, bankers, government and various others who have brought us to this doom laden place? And when we've done that, and apportioned the blame, what then? Will we sink further into the morass, or will we look for a solution?