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Saturday December 3 was the UN International Day of Persons with Disability. We marked it in Galway by holding what we called a ‘Speakout,’ at one o’clock outside Brown Thomas’s, where the Christmas shopping crowds were thickest. Ten of us, men and women in wheelchairs, all ages from late twenties to over eighty, spoke in turn about the need to combat our social exclusion in the city, letting the public know the everyday obstacles we face to our mobility and ease of access.

As rehearsals for the Dean Crowe Theatre’s new year pantomime, Treasure Island, enter their final stages, the cast, under the watchful glare of Kori Kilduff, director, and Claudia O’Sullivan, choreographer, are busy “crossing their eyes and dotting their teas” for what promises to be a rip-roaring romp.

Tributes have been pouring in following the death on Wednesday this week of recently retired Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces, and Roscommon native, Lieutenant General Dermot Earley.

We live in a multi-cultural society which in recent years has seen a steady influx of immigrants from all over the world.

Hundreds of people lined College Road on Sunday in honour of one of Kilkenny’s best loved citizens.