Despite costing in excess of € 1 million per annum to provide, the continuation and availability of the home care, day care and bereavement support services have been ensured largely by the generosity and support of the people of Galway. Without this support, these services would simply cease to exist.

It's extremely, extremely exciting to finally do something as important as Healthy Kids Day at our true home.

Some of the products offered by lenders have a built-in 60-day excess, for example Alliance & Leicester, or a 30-day exclusion, such as the Halifax. In other words, the policy does not pay out until a borrower has been off work ill for a minimum of 30 or 60 days. Many customers just cannot envisage such a long period of illness.

The idea of him penalizing his home province is obviously a very difficult one politically, and he didn't want to discuss it in any significant way.

I'll just say this. There was no way we were going to lose at home on this day in this city for all those people.

Most Seabees live here. This is their home. Frankly, the first day after the storm we had to almost hold them back because we had to get out own base squared away and make the base safe so we could use it to work from.