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Jobs in Údarás na Gaeltachta assisted-companies rose by 704 full-time positions last year, with a net decrease of 398 jobs overall. However in Mayo, while 48 new jobs were created in the Gaeltacht last year, taking job losses into account there was a net loss of 132 jobs in the county.

The annual general meeting of Coiste Dúiche Mhaigh Eo de Chonradh na Gaeilge will be held in the Welcome Inn Hotel on Monday January 31 at 8.30pm. All members are asked to attend.

As letter writers to newspapers know, as soon as you make your point, and satisfied that it is the only salient point worth making, you can be brought back to reality smartly by a riposte! Sir Roger Casement’s letter in the Irish language newspaper An Claidheamh Soluis, in the late summer of 1904, was a hard hitting criticism of the attitude of those parents who favoured that their children learned to speak English, instead of Irish. “The general mass of the Irish speaking parents have kicked the language out of doors.” He fully supported the struggle of the people of Tawin, a small island on the east side of Galway Bay, who had withdrawn their children from the local national school because they wanted their children educated through Irish. As a result the authorities withdrew the schoolmistress, and the school, unused for years, fell into disrepair. They warned the islanders that if they wanted the school to re-open they had to pay for its repair.

Ballinasloe Comhaltas will host its next junior session on Sunday January 16 in Padraig Pearses Club House, Ballinasloe from 6pm to 8pm. All junior musicians and singers are welcome, and the branch invites non-members to come along and join in.The junior sessions have been a great success to date.

Those interested in learning to speak Gaeilge or improving the little Irish they have should check out Conradh na Gaeilge’s winter/spring session of Irish classes.

Tá Conradh na Gaeilge ag ullmhú clár na Gaillimhe de Sheachtain na Gaeilge faoi láthair. Beidh Seachtain na Gaeilge 2011 ar siúl ón 5 – 17 Márta agus beidh na céadta imeacht ar siúl le linn na tréimhse sin agus na mílte duine ag glacadh páirte sna himeachtaí.

If you want to make 2011 the year when your cúpla focal becomes proper fluency in Irish, then check out the new season of Irish language classes from Conradh na Gaeilge.

Conradh na Gaeilge's popular sean nós dancing classes under the expert tuition of Connemara sean-nós dancer Pádraig Ó h’Oibicín, return on Monday January 17.

Three Galway groups are among the recipients of funding announced under the Seniors Alert Scheme.

A total of 55 projects involving a total of €2.9m in State funding were approved at an Údarás na Gaeltachta board meeting in Na Forbacha last week, which will lead to the creation of 193 new jobs when fully implemented.