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Dearbhail Rodgers shares how she went from never wanting to be photographed and dreading social occasions to gaining a new lease of life after losing 10 stone with Slimming World. This December, she celebrated three years as a target member, and the confidence and happiness she has gained is undeniable.

Hundreds of swimmers, dippers and supporters gathered in Salthill on a mild and misty Christmas morning for the annual COPEGalway Christmas Day Swim.

It was one of those Galway nights that you would see frozen forever on an arts festival poster, the moon with a crook sharp enough for someone to sit in and drop a fishing line down to the bay below. Flares erupted over near the harbour. Fireworks launched from the roof of the fancy hotel.

In 1904, MJ MacDonnell, Confectioner, announced the fact in the local papers, that he had just opened a TEA ROOM at Number 8, Wiilliamsgate Street where ladies and gentlemen ‘can have freshly made tea and cakes – all cakes made freshly on the premises with the purest ingredients only. Seed, Plum, Rich Plum, Madeira, Citron, Cherry, Sultana, Genoese, Pastry etc. White and Brown scones, Cream scones and Crumpets always in stock. Ice Creams in 24 hours’.

Three Galway locations have been named for the GOAL Mile fundraiser which takes place in various villages, towns, and cities across Ireland through Christmas and on New Year's.

Normally at this time of the year, as people head away for the holidays, I end up being the last one to lock the door or switch on the alarm as I leave this building. A place normally so busy, but on those days you get to thinking about the year just past, and the possibilities of what lies ahead past the stroke of midnight on Wednesday week.

Inland Fisheries Ireland(IFI) is appealing to people to report sightings of salmon poaching, or other illegal fishing activity, over Christmas.

Ahead of this week's Christmas swims taking place across the city and county, the Irish Coast Guard, Water Safety Ireland and the RNLI have urged the public to remain cautious while in or near water during the festive season.

Inland Fisheries Ireland(IFI) is appealing to people to report sightings of salmon poaching, or other illegal fishing activity, over Christmas.

Normally at this time of the year, as people head away for the holidays, I end up being the last one to lock the door or switch on the alarm as I leave this building. A place normally so busy, but on those days you get to thinking about the year just past, and the possibilities of what lies ahead past the stroke of midnight on Wednesday week.