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Mayo Fine Gael deputy Michelle Mulherin has played down any suggestion that the Taoiseach should have elevated at least one woman from the backbenches to a junior ministerial role.

Nineteen Canadian and seven American Irish language learners were presented with awards at Acadamh na hOllscolaíochta Gaeilge in An Cheathrú Rua in the Galway Gaeltacht recently.

A Canadian company has purchased Conamara seaweed company Arramara Teoranta.

Viking weapons and boats, which have lain submerged for almost a thousand years, have been discovered in Lough Corrib.

As part of the Seachtain na Gaeilge celebrations, Cllr Dónal Lyons, the Mayoral Representative for the City of Galway, announced a mix of 12 businesses and organisations as the finalists for Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh 2014 at a press event in the Eyre Square Centre.

The population of a protected bird that likes to hide in heather on a Mayo bogland has doubled.

Galway county councillors have given their full backing to the Galway bid to host the National Famine Commemoration 2014 with the town of Portumna being specifically chosen to host a number of events in May 2014.

The European Commission has approved funding for 248 new projects under the LIFE+ programme, the EU's environment fund — including a €2.6 million project by the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht to protect endangered habitats on the three Aran Islands.

Objectives from the Athlone Canal Planning Study will now be part of the new Town Development Plan.

In all some 589 applications for compensation were received in relation to bogs located wholey or in part in County Westmeath, according to the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.