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Almost €21 million was paid out by the State last year in child benefit to the parents of non-resident children, the Fine Gael Spokesperson on Community, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Deputy Michael Ring, was told in the Dáil.

Transition year students in Coláiste Mhuire, Tuar Mhic Éadaigh, are organising a BcoolCycle2School competition, designed to encourage students to cycle to school. A bicycle is up for grabs by one of the students who “gets on his bike”.

Drum Community Centre invites you to join them for a ‘cupán tae’ to celebrate Seachtain na Gaeilge.

Students from four Westmeath schools are heading to the RDS, Dublin on May 6 for the Young Social Innovators Showcase 2009.

A report published yesterday after a ten year delay by the Child Abuse Commission highlighted that sexual abuse was ‘chronic’ in the Christian Brothers’ industrial school at Letterfrack.

While voters in Mayo take to the polls today to select three MEPs, 31 new county councillors and nine town councillors in each of Westport, Ballina and Castlebar, the candidates themselves will be settling in for a long weekend at the count centres.

With secondary schools closed, and the primary school year coming to an end, more than 50 Galway students will travel to Connemara for the first Gaeltacht Day Course with GaelNua.

The Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology will once again offer an intensive enabling mathematics course later this summer to secondary school students who do not obtain a pass in Leaving Certificate mathematics.

Deputy Paul Connaughton has called on the Minister for Agriculture Mr Brendan Smith, and Gerry Boyle Director of Teagasc to provide sufficient staff to accommodate the record breaking number of students who have applied for places at Mountbellew Agriculture College this September.

Castlebar is ready to rock this weekend with the arrival of the World Fleadh, the first time this Irish and Celtic music festival will be staged in the west of Ireland. Bucking all recessionary trends, music enthusiasts are expected to descend on Castlebar in their thousands for nine full days of world-class musical entertainment with the best of what Ireland has to offer on display.