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St Joseph's secondary school in Castlebar will be celebrating the school's centenary next month, with a weekend of events to mark the 100 years of the school set to take place over Saturday October 27 and Sunday October 28.

Network Ireland, Mayo Branch has announced the election of Anne Conlon as its new president for 2018. The election took place at the recent AGM. Ms Conlon, who is managing director of Castlebar-based Conlon Training since its establishment in 2010, was delighted to accept the nomination. As part of this role Ms Conlon is on the national executive, a role she took up in 2017 as vice president of Network Mayo. She was also appointed to the national sponsorship group in 2017, which is responsible for the funding of all 15 Networks in Ireland.

Bank of Ireland’s 17th National Enterprise Week took place this week with 26 events taking place across the country for SMEs with an interest in growing their business. Each National Enterprise Week event was carefully planned to support specific industry sectors with experts on hand to speak about everything from trends, forecasts and opportunities to personal relevant business experience.

Bank of Ireland’s 17th National Enterprise Week, themed ‘Scaling Your Business’, will take place from today, November 17, to next Friday, November 24, and will see up to 26 events take place across the country for SMEs with an interest in growing their business.

Mayo Public Participation Network is holding a countywide information evening in Breaffy House Hotel on Wednesday, November 8, at 7.30pm. The evening will focus on gathering views/ideas from community groups that will form Mayo PPN's submission to Ireland 2040 - Our Plan. The meeting is open to community groups registered or wishing to register with Mayo PPN.

On Sunday the Carra Classic 8k was won by John Byrne (Mayo AC) in 27:29 - the first woman home was Kathy Gleeson (Claremorris) in 30:56. The Carra Classic is part of the Great Lakes series of spring races and 160 competitors made it to the finish line. 

Back in 2010, a chance meeting with a friend led Yvonne Kilcullen on to a new career path resulting in a thriving business in the events sector. “I had bumped into a dear friend that I had not seen in a while – we went for a coffee but she was a little stressed. She explained that she was organising a wedding and wanted to make it that bit extra special – could you ‘style it up’ for me Yvonne? At that time I told her no way – it’s not what I do.”

November 2015 saw current and past Junior Chamber members from around the county gather to celebrate 100 years of the Junior Chamber movement around the globe. After the success of last year’s event the team at JCIMayo have decided to make it an annual event. This year's celebration will take place tomorrow, November 19 at 7.30pm in the Breaffy House Hotel, Castlebar.

A musical concert taking place in Breaffy House Hotel on Thursday October 13 at 8pm will feature Caroline Cresham with musical support from Rebecca Cresham, Mick Mulhearn, Mick Holster, Mick Buckton, Tom Lyons, Stephen Doherty, Pat Coyne, Sarah Lyons and Richie Heneghan. The concert will also feature performance by Tina Browne, a student at St Anthony’s School.

The Longest Day Challenge will take place on June 18, starting and finishing at Breaffy House Hotel by a group fundraising for the Irish Cancer Society. This is a non-competitive challenge event where a local group has taken on the challenge to cycle to and climb the three mountains of Mayo – Mweelrea 815M, Nephin 805M and Croagh Patrick 765M. The cycle distance is approximately 150kms between the three peaks and they hope to finish this in just under 14 hours. The group intend to start their Longest Day Challenge at 5.30am and return to Breaffy House Hotel, before the Mayo and Galway Connacht Championship match finishes that evening.