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The Galway City Ring Road took another significant step this week. Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers has confirmed that the project is expected to be included in the first block of roughly 10 schemes nationwide to be designated as critical infrastructure under legislation passed by the Dáil last month, with water, energy and transport prioritised in this initial round. For a project that has spent more than two decades in planning, this development changes the landscape in ways worth understanding.

The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Deputy Michael McGrath, will address business leaders at a pre-budget business breakfast meeting in the Sheraton Hotel Athlone on Thursday, July 7, at 7.30am.

The volatile nature of politics is such that change for the big office holders may only ever be around the corner, but at the outset of 2022 we find ourselves in the unusual position of being guaranteed a change of Taoiseach this year, and this in turn may have a knock-on effect in other areas.

As we approach the midpoint of 2021, and with the summer Dáil recess approaching, now is a good time to take stock of the political year to date.

Political developments in recent times have reminded Insider of the quote from G.K. Chesterton, (also sometimes credited to Emile Cammaerts, the Belgian playright) 'When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.’