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On Saturday, March 31 Concern Worldwide welcomes readers of the Mayo Advertiser to climb Mweelrea Mountain. At 814 metres, it is the highest peak in Connacht.

A fishing trip turned into tragedy earlier this week when a freak wave knocked two men into the cold waters of Lough Corrib and, despite a major search and rescue effort by local fishermen and a coastguard helicopter, one man lost his fight for life in hospital hours later.

Forget Westlife, Boyzone, or even One Direction, and make way for the new kids on the block, a group of NUI Galway students who have donned the obligatory matching white outfits, plastered the cheesy grins, and brought their dodgy syncronised dance moves not just to the campus grounds, but to the streets of Galway, and to a YouTube audience all in aid of a very worthy cause.

Galway hurlers will be favourites to follow up last weekend’s victory over Cork with a home win over Waterford in Pearse Stadium on Sunday (2.30pm).

Galway will host the 2012 Women’s Rugby Intervarsities, which kick off at NUIG’s Dangan sportsground next Wednesday.

Matt Bidwell of GCH and Jane-Ann Healy of Athenry AC were the first local runners home in the Craughwell AC 10-mile road race.

Loughrea were the winners of the CBE Connacht senior squash final in their first outing in the event.

O’Donnellan & Joyce has recently brought to the market a perfect gem of a townhouse located in the heart of Galway. No 3 Lydon Terrace, Bohermore, is within easy access of all amenities and services and within walking distance of Eyre Square. The property is being offered for sale in the Victoria Hotel at 3pm as part of the O’Donnellan & Joyce March auction.

Connacht have a new name on the Connacht Senior Schools Cup for the first time in 35 years as the Marist College finally made the breakthrough in Wednesday’s final at the Galway Sportsground.