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The Galway People of the Year Award winners were honoured at a Gala Banquet and Awards Presentation in the Galway Bay Hotel at the weekend with over 400 guests in attendance, including Councillor Donal Lyons Deputy Mayor of Galway and Cathoirleach of Galway County Council, Councillor Liam Carroll.

Ireland West Airport were thrilled to welcome little Aron Gibbons, 6, from Westport to the airport last week, Aron, lit up The Late Late Toy Show last month when he appeared on it with Ryan Tubridy, telling the host all about his love for airplanes and airports.

Drumadore is Ireland’s largest provider of group drumming lessons. The school wants children to have fun through drumming together and get all the benefits of friendship through music. Director of the school, Eimhin Cradock, is super passionate about what he does and uses all of his experience as a primary school teacher, Macnas drum director, and former Saw Doctor to bring drumming to as many people as possible.

Happy Birthday Mr Bob is the title of a new Irish book celebrating Bob Dylan on his 80th birthday (24 May). With almost 100 contributors the book also has beautiful drawings of Bob by the rock legend, the late Rory Gallagher.

What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Kiltullagh's Saoirse Ruane who wowed the nation during The Late Late Toy Show when she had three of her wishes granted was one of the stars again on Friday night, when she spearheaded the Toy Show appeal which raised almost €7 million for a variety of good causes.

It seems the note this week for all those who write, those who listen and those who talk is one of hope.

As the song goes ‘It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas’, and it certainly feels that way as you ramble through Galway City Streets, with the Christmas lights glittering overhead and the odd buskers belting out a version of Fairytale of New York to passers-by. But just when we thought it couldn’t get any better, and just in time for the unofficial launch of Christmas, The Late Late Toy Show, we get the news that our restaurants can reopen. A Christmas Miracle!

My mother, who religiously listened to the Gay Byrne Show, operated a kind of censorship. There were certain topics she did not want me to hear. For two hours, five days a week, she would shut the kitchen door, and listen to Gay with the volume turned down. On one occasion I came into the room. She asked: “What do you want?” Nobody needs an excuse to go into one’s kitchen, so I’d rather indignantly replied: “Nothin’.” “Well,” she said, “I’m busy.” And that meant scram.