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Mayo Integration Forum held a family fun day last weekend in Claremorris. The forum comprises migrant representatives, Mayo County Development Board, Mayo Sports Partnership, Mayo Intercultural Action, Mayo County Childcare Committee, and other agencies and groups. One of the main goals of the forum is to promote active integration of people from different countries of origin who chose Ireland as their home. The event was organised to encourage integration of diverse communities through active sport interaction and cultural exchange.

More than 500 students, faculty, and staff of Semester at Sea® (SAS), the nation’s premier shipboard programme for study abroad, will arrive in Galway at 8:00 am on 31 August for a one day exploration of Galway before also docking in Dublin. Ireland is the first country on the academic voyage itinerary. Sarah Cosgrove, a student from the National University of Ireland (NUI) Galway joined the shipboard community in Halifax where embarkation took place on 23 August. All participants are traveling aboard the MV Explorer, a state-of-the-art passenger ship that Semester at Sea has outfitted as a traveling university.

Castlebar’s Aisling Neary has made her way through to the final 20 in the Outstanding Young Persons of the World competition, which is being run by Junior Chambers International. Neary, who is from Rathbawn in Castlebar, has been nominated under the humanitarian/voluntary leadership section. After qualifying as a nurse she joined Health Action Overseas and worked with children in an orphanage in Romania, before travelling in Australia and providing nursing to families living in the underdeveloped Australian bush.

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Local Castlebar band, The Reserved Moments, have raised approximately €1,500 through charity gigs in the Linenhall, Castlebar, and the Tennis Club, Castlebar, for projects in Ghana.

THE CURRENT German international football squad boasts 11 players whose parents or grandparents were born outside the Bundesrepublik Deutschland - Podolski, Klose and Trochowski (Poland), Boateng (Ghana), Cacau (Brazil), Ozil (Turkey) and Khedira (Tunisia).

Shane Fitzgibbon, one of Ireland's best known exponents of taekwon-do, was recently promoted to sixth degree black belt.

BEFORE THE Saw Doctors perform at Glastonbury, the band will play two warm up shows at Kelly’s Bar, Bridge Street, on Tuesday and Wednesday.

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