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Connacht have two weeks to recover from their New Year’s Day “arm wrestle” with Munster before facing another similar challenge as European fare resumes.

As we bid a glad farewell to another year of The New Way of Living and welcome in the latest instalment, we look back on some key moments in the year 2021 - a year of highs and lows, defeats and victories, learnings, resilience and hope.

The Galway Camogie team received 12 nominations for this year’s All Stars. Congrats to Sarah Healy, Shauna Healy, Sarah Dervan, Dervla Higgins, Caitriona Cormican, Siobhán Gardiner, Emma Helebert, Niamh Kilkenny, Aoife Donohue, Siobhán McGrath, Orlaith McGrath, and Ailish O’Reilly. And the Galway manager Cathal Murray has been named the Manager of the Year. A mighty year’s work.

It seems laughable today but in 1958 Archbishop John Mc Quaid of Dublin, obsessively monitored Irish life to the extent, that he did not have to ban a film, book or play outright, it was sufficient for his secretary to make it known that the archbishop had wondered if that (name of film, book or movie) was the sort of thing a good Catholic should witness.

SEÁN Ó Riada was only 40 when he died in 1971, but his music, his achievements, his legacy, and his influence, continue to resound through Irish folk and traditional music.

Anyone schooled at St Gerald’s De La Salle College in Castlebar in the early to mid-1980s will know what it was like to go on a ‘Nature Walk’ on the shores of Lough Lannagh during a double science or biology class, when the weather improved in May or in September after the long summer break.

After an ideal start to their European Champions Cup campaign, Connacht face an altogether tougher task when they travel to the home of current Premiership leaders Leicester Tigers for Sunday's second round fixture.

Heineken Champions Cup rugby kicks off at the Sportsground on Sunday (1pm) with another illustrious French club taking on Connacht.

Land Rover has been confirmed as the fifth worldwide partner for Rugby World Cup 2023 in France.

There was double success for Mayo at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021 this week.