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An education conference which will be held at NUI Galway later this month will look at an emerging method of teaching languages which is gaining popularity across Europe.

The Linguistic Study of the Use of Irish in the Gaeltacht, published in 2002, focused attention on the fragile state of Irish as the community language of the Gaeltacht and of the need for emergency measures to protect and strengthen it.

Considering our current economic climate the importance of having both the skillset and the education to differentiate yourself from the competition is vital.

Gaeltacht development body Udaras na Gaeltacht is to change its name to an even longer one.

Graiguecullen is getting excited. This coming September the community will throw open its arms to a brand new school. The school, an Educate Together multi-denominational school will open for day one of classes on Monday September 1, 2008.

Carlow’s newest school, Carlow Educate Together in Graiguecullen, is now processing enrolments for September. Since places are on a first come, first served basis, parents are being asked to get in early as increased interest in the new school has occurred in the last week. Parents of junior infants in particular, are encouraged to send their names in to Educate Together as soon as possible.

The Fine Gael spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Michael Ring, has learned that local authorities can now introduce community wardens outside schools following the success of a pilot scheme. He had sought an update on the pilot scheme commitment as included in the Programme for Government.

Carlow Educate Together is currently taking enrolments for September this year and parents are reminded that places are offered on a first come, first served basis.

The Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) will be awarded a grant of €255,000 over a three-year period, to develop its BA degree course, business and communications through Irish.

It was a twofold mission — to do the best you could for yourself and to do the best you could for the folks at home. Margaret Craven was talking about emigration from Ireland the way it used to be in the 1960s. She knows. She left her native Letterard in Connemara as a teenager. She was then Margaret Connolly and, like thousands of others of her generation, the bells of emigration were tolling for her early in her life. She was speaking in Portland in the state of Maine in America last week. She is now a state representative for the Democrats in the state parliament in Maine; next week she will almost certainly be a state senator. She has an election next Tuesday and the bells are tolling for her Republican opponent. But last Monday it was the bells in the Church of St Dominick in Portland that tolled and told the story of the Irish in the state of Maine. And it brought together many elements of the Irish diaspora.