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On a soft Galway afternoon last Thursday, as the autumn light slipped across the paving stones of Eyre Square, a small crowd gathered near the entrance to the Eyre Square Centre. City councillors, family members, and lifelong friends stood together in quiet pride, as President Michael D. Higgins unveiled a memorial bench to one of Galway’s most steadfast public servants — Mr Clement Ignatius O’Flynn.

Despite opening the scoring, Athlone Town succumbed to the challenge of western rivals, Galway United, in Lissywollen on Friday night, the visitors claiming their seventh consecutive league win in the process.

Athlone Town emerged from Bishopsgate on Saturday evening last with a merited local derby victory, a spirited away day performance claiming the points against Longford Town.

The life saving action of Athlone River Safety Awareness Group volunteer, Karyn Martin, has been formally recognised by her peers, her swift response to a potentially fatal incident on the River Shannon in 2021, a just reflection of the work conducted by the organisation since its formation in 2019.

Q: The interview panel asked a scenario question: “what would you do if somebody turned up for work with a smell of drink?” I was going for a job as manager of a retail store and despite working in the sector for almost ten years, I have never encountered this type of situation. I made a bad job of answering it and I didn’t get the job. How was I expected to answer that question? (TR, email)

Q: The interview panel asked a scenario question: “what would you do if somebody turned up for work with a smell of drink?” I was going for a job as manager of a retail store and despite working in the sector for almost ten years, I have never encountered this type of situation. I made a bad job of answering it and I didn’t get the job. How was I expected to answer that question? (TR, email)

On that day in 1996 when Galway won that long-awaited first senior camogie title and the team celebrated to the praise of hordes of young fans who made the long journey up in the days before we had motorways, who would have guessed that the excitement of that occasion would impact so greatly on the mind of one young girl who had travelled to the capital with a busload of her friends.

Division two awaits Mayo next season after they were seen off by Tyrone by a single point in MacHale Park on Sunday afternoon.

With one third of all nursing homes in Ireland recording a diagnosis of COVID-19 and many of them recording deaths, the virus has wreaked havoc in normally tranquil and peaceful elder care facilities.

Galway survived their hardest test yet this season to qualify for the Liberty Insurance All-Ireland Senior Camogie semi-final.