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Scoil an Chroi Naofa in Ballinasloe is in dire need of a new building according to a Galway county councillor.

Padraig O’Connor and Joe Barrett, both training and coaching consultants, have joined forces to host a 2020 personal development workshop called Find Your 2020 Vision – create your best year yet. This one day workshop will take place on Saturday February 1 in the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone, Co Westmeath.

‘On Thursday last, a servant-maid at Merlin Park, the seat of Charles Blake Esq. near this town, in the act of proceeding to deliver a message which she received from Mrs Lawrence, who was then indisposed in the house, ran with so much violence against the bannisters as to cause them to give way, by which she was unfortunately precipitated to the bottom of the stairs, and killed on the spot. Every medical assistance and attention was immediately provided, but to no purpose, as the fall was so great as to have completely broken the skull in many parts.’ (Connaught Journal November 10 1823).

AKUMAKON, THE annual Galway-based non-profit convention celebrating Japanese anime and manga, and Japanese culture, run by NUI Galway students, returns to the university campus this weekend.

In the words of the Game of Thrones protagonist Jon Snow – Winter is Coming. And while we face no major threats of Dragons, Night Kings, or Armies-of-the-Dead here in our quaint little town of Galway; frozen and eventually burst pipes and property leaks are a very real possibility indeed.

NUI Galway has this morning (Thursday) outlined a new strategy which places the institution as a central driver of transformational change for Galway and the West of Ireland.

Fine Gael TD for Galway West Hildegarde Naughton has welcomed the allocation of more than €9.6 million for five major job-creation projects in Galway under the Regional Enterprise Development Fund.

Galway has been allocated €9.7 million under the Government’s Regional Enterprise Development Fund, with the Galway Technology Centre, the PorterShed, Comhoibriú/Creative Enterprise West, SCCUL Enterprises, and Grow Remote set to benefit.

GRETB has launched the Skills to Advance programme, an initiative to support small and medium enterprises in maintaining and building staff skills and competencies. GRETB's director of further education and training, Eithne Nic Dhonnchadha, believes that continuous professional development is central to economic development and security of employment.

The needs of tourism, and the ability of landlords to avoid restrictions on short term rentals, must not come before people who live in Galway city - especially those struggling to find accommodation.