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More than 500 volunteers from units of the Order of Malta Ireland Ambulance Corps will descend on Athlone on September 18 and 19 to showcase their lifesaving skills as part of the All-Ireland First Aid Competitions.

Two out of three of Ireland’s 470,000 people with asthma may be unknowingly aggravating their condition by not using their inhalers correctly.

The Asthma Society of Ireland and Irish Pharmacy Union launch Campaign encouraging people with asthma to get their inhaler technique checked. Not using inhalers correctly results in poor symptom control and a worsening in conditions.

A recent survey of national school teachers in Ireland provides clear evidence of the benefits of entrepreneurship and business skills programmes in the primary school curriculum.   More than 330 schools were surveyed to provide a comprehensive overview of the benefits of junior entrepreneurship for primary school pupils.

The work being done around the country by the Jack & Jill Foundation to provide home nursing care and end of life care to children with life limiting and life threatening conditions has been acknowledged by Mercedes-Benz in Ireland.

Entrepreneurs and business people from the west region will gather at GMIT Mayo in Castlebar on Tuesday, 29 September, to participate in the ninth annual Spirit of Entrepreneurship evening hosted by the Innovation Hub (iHub), formerly known as the Innovation in Business Centre (IiBC).

NUI Galway will host Ireland’s largest surgical conference, the 40th Sir Peter Freyer Memorial Lecture and Surgical Symposium over the next two days September 4-5 in the Arts Millennium Building, NUI Galway when internationally renowned surgeon, Dr Philip Schauer will deliver the Memorial Lecture entitled ‘Surgical Therapy for Diabetes – A New Order’.

Tuam Educate Together National School welcomed its first intake of nine junior infants this week. The school, based in in the former St Patrick’s CBS on the Dublin Road, is one of three new Educate Together national schools around the country as part of the divestment process.

Educate Together announced on Wednesday evening that its planned new national school for Castlebar would now not be opening, just days before it was due to open for the first time. The educational organisation said up until Wednesday, it was ready to go ahead and open the school in temporary accommodation, but was given an ultimatum by the Department of Education and Skills that it must accept the accommodation in the old national school in the Burren, outside Castlebar, or postpone the opening of the school.

COPE Galway has identified access to housing as the single biggest issue experienced by clients of its services.