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While domestic issues are likely to continue to dominate the political agenda – this past week seeing the re-emergence with a vengeance of the housing crisis as some light begins to emerge at the end of the pandemic tunnel – the coming months will also feature some tumultuous developments in European politics that may have significant implications for Ireland.

Young women are significantly less likely to say they would accept a Covid-19 vaccine, according to new research carried out by NUI Galway as part of a joint Irish-UK project.

Similar to the sun in the bright blue Monday afternoon sky, spirits soared high as those who received their initial AstraZeneca vaccination departed the surrounds of the Athlone Institute of Technology International Arena.

Fianna Fáil councillor Michael Loftus has called for a second Covid-19 vaccination centre in the county to be established in Ballina. Cllr Loftus raised the issue at the April meeting of the Ballina Municipal District, saying that it would speed up the whole process and that a town the size of Ballina, along with the north Mayo region, should have a centre. He asked for the council to write to the Department of Health to raise the matter. He was backed by his party colleague Cllr Annie May Reape and Fine Gael Cllr John O’Hara in this call.

As rays of hope start to emerge through the dark Covid-19 clouds, the opening of the vaccination centre in the Athlone Institute of Technology International Arena on Wednesday morning is further evidence of progress in the quest to suppress the persistent presence of the virus within the community.

A fifth year Ballyhaunis Community School student who was the recipient of a kidney donation, was one of three teenage kidney transplant recipients to receive their second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccination last week.

Many of Galway’s 8,900+ employers may be wary of collecting vaccination data on employees but 84% of Irish companies believe employers should be aware of who is and isn’t vaccinated.

They say that patience is the virtue that you show when there are too many witnesses around to see how you may have behaved otherwise. Be that as it may, it has been a virtue that we have been implored to employ over the past year or more. And like in all instances when we require patience, it is as we enter the final straight that the adherence to it becomes the most difficult.

Independent TD Seán Canney wants the Government to adopt a twin track Covid 19 vaccination rollout.

Independent TD Seán Canney wants the Government to adopt a twin track Covid 19 vaccination rollout.