When Irish eyes were smiling
It's that time of year - politicians picking up awards for work done, punches landed and journalists wondering how many pieces they'll be asked to prepare looking back at the year that was and forward to the year yet to come.
Out of the starting blocks early, one of my colleagues, Owain Clarke. For CF99 tonight he's been looking at economic development - sizing up plans for change to come and looking back at how the Assembly Government has attempted to transform the Welsh economy in the past.
He found this snippet of information fed into the BBC's news system a decade ago.
'Assembly First Minister, Rhodri Morgan, said that the transformation of the economy they are seeking in "A Winning Wales", the Administration's 10 year economic plan, is not tried very often - the only recent example being that of the Irish Republic. He said that the Irish Republic's example had provided inspiration for the strategy and that Wales required the same national unity as they had displayed in Ireland in order to succeed'.
A good morning's work in the archive.
UPDATE
Followed by another dreadful afternoon's lot of comparative statistics.
The future Yes to more powers campaign Chair - rumoured to be from the business world and according to supporters at least "just the person we wanted but never thought we could get" - will apparently be unveiled before Christmas.
Given the recent answers to "how are we doing compared with others" have been "dreadful" and "even worse " supporters of more powers must also be hoping that he/she is a wo/man with a plan.
I'm Betsan Powys, BBC Wales' political editor. I'll be blogging the inside track on 
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