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For the final two years of their school lives, Leaving Cert students are regularly targeted through the marketing departments of all the course providers offering places on further and higher education courses both at home and abroad. Employers who are open to or seeking apprentices have no such access to students, nor do students have a CAO type application process to secure an apprenticeship.

There are few achievements more remarkable than a long life. Not simply because of the number itself — though 107 years is a figure that rightly causes us to pause in wonder — but because of all that such a life must carry within it. A century is not merely a sequence of birthdays. It is an accumulation of seasons, sorrows, joys, losses, changes and quiet acts of endurance. To live long is not only to survive. It is to adapt. To bend without breaking as the world remakes itself around you.

Cllr Cillian Keane has called for the reform of government farming schemes, claiming that small farmers are being overwhelmed by bureaucracy and paperwork.

Galway’s two local authorities required a multi-million bailout to cover the cost of Storm Éowyn which ravaged the west coast last January.

Independent Councillor Terry O’Flaherty has confirmed that the engineer in the traffic management section of Galway City Council took her representations on board to fix the flashing beacons outside Scoil Chaitriona in Renmore Avenue that have been out of order for several months.

Councillors in the Loughrea Municipal District have threatened to travel to Dublin to confront Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) directly, following what they described as a prolonged refusal by the agency to send a representative to meet them locally about ongoing road safety and traffic management issues.

With the much-loved Portumna Christmas Swim fast approaching, concerns over the ongoing closure of the town’s main bathing area dominated discussion at this week’s meeting of the Loughrea Municipal District.

Works have commenced on the removal of the kissing gate which is located near the bridge in Ballyloughane said Independent Councillor Terry O’Flaherty.

Persistent road safety issues and dangerous driving in Portumna, Loughrea and the surrounding villages were a key issue raised by councillors at the October meeting of the Loughrea Municipal District.

Arup has received the prestigious Engineers Ireland Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Employer of the Year Award for its Personal and Career Development Programme, an initiative designed to support mid-career staff at a pivotal stage in their careers.