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A popular Galway lady, Gráinne Connaughton, who passed away recently, has left a legacy of kindness for the elderly in the City of the Tribes. Growing old is part and parcel of life’s journey; facing daily challenges that can only be truly understood and experienced by the elderly.

I am the last person that anyone would ever think would be talking about a love of running. Up to the Covid Lockdowns I was focused on my art and exhibitions and really nothing else. Running was the last thing on my mind, ever. Sure, like everyone else I had the odd medal from sports days back from childhood. But, since that age, I never really took any notice of sport, especially athletics. My childhood, from primary school, was taken up with exams, poetry, art and drama clubs.

You can read an organisation by the quality of its people, the rapport they create with customers, and the buy-in they have to the core service. In this regard, OxyGeneration is setting high standards.

Joy was unbridled and superlatives flowed as all in Mayo glowed in Sunday's glory. Not even rare old Dubliners could begrudge Mayo this long-awaited victory.

I hope you all, women and men, are feeling better after the opening of the hairdressing salons and the barber shops.

WHEN THE hiatus caused by the General Election, Brexit, and the upcoming exams is over, time will allow for the opportunity to discuss the greatest of joys - the joy of reading.

Playgoers are in for a treat next week when Eoin Colfer’s achingly funny comedy, Holy Mary, comes to the Town Hall on Tuesday, November 13, at 8pm.

You know, I do not know how to begin or what to say to you at the start of my column this week. We all know the terrible heartbreak of the story of the five people in Ballyjamesduff in County Cavan. Yet every time I read it or talk about it to anyone I find the tears coming into my eyes. It is so sad for every one of them - such a tragic horror story.

I have not spoken with you since the terrible events in Brussels when evil stalked that lovely city in the two dreadful events at the airport and the metro.