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It sounds like a great weekend doesn’t it? Watching 2,000 odd athletes run about Athlone in wet suits, while soaking up the fun (hopefully), spending the day with the family, and enjoying some good entertainment.

It sounds like a great weekend doesn’t it? Watching 2,000 odd athletes run about Athlone in wet suits, while soaking up the fun (hopefully), spending the day with the family, and enjoying some good entertainment.

INDIE-POP singer-songwriter Jann Klose is something of a ‘citizen of the world’ having spent much of his life travelling through Europe, Africa, and the US. He is now coming to Ireland.

Castlebar businessman Pat Quinn spends many months each year in Africa. He has been travelling to Kenya for 10 years now and has been so touched by the people and their worsening daily struggle that he has begun a fundraising campaign to improve necessary services such as running water and build new classrooms for the children.

Four members of the Galway based Malawi charity, Zikomo, headed to central Africa on Sunday for two weeks to oversee the final construction stages of its second community resource centre. The trip is the second so far this year.

When the problems of Chad became a human rights issue, and the UN asked for Irish troops to help, the Government said yes.

•A new race on the Galway athletic calendar has been scheduled for Castledaly in south Galway on Sunday (2pm). Organised with co-operation from Craughwell AC and AAI approved, the race will be run on the Gort to Loughrea road, with race headquarters at the local St Thomas GAA Club. This race is being organised in support of AIDS Partnership with Africa, a charity with which many locals have become actively involved. Local organiser Marguerite Brady says: "We know that we're the new kids on the block, but we hope to put on a well-organised race that will be suitable for all standards of runners to enjoy. “ Online entry for the race is now open at www.RunIreland.Com.

I was walking home along Vicar Street, near midnight, on Saturday night a few weeks ago. A car pulled up suddenly beside me and the window was rolled down. “John Cleere,” the driver asked, “do you not know me?”

I’m thinking it’s time to create a bit of good karma in the world. We’re all a bit down and out. There’s lots of moaning going on, which is fine. It can be therapeutic to get it all out. But that can end up getting you down as well. So perhaps it’s time to stop feeling sorry for ourselves and start looking at how we can help others who are worse off.

This weekend offers locals the chance to be part of Guinness Book of Records history while contributing to a very worthy charity.