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Minister for Community, Equality, and Gaeltacht Affairs Pat Carey has announced funding of more than €90,000 for a further 33 community and voluntary groups under the Seniors Alert Scheme.

Gaeltacht based companies have been seriously affected by the national and global economic downturn and as a result, net employment in Údarás na Gaeltachta supported companies fell by 771 - or 8.8 per cent last year. According to the Údarás Annual Report just released, total employment in client companies now stands at 7,472, with just 710 of these created as new jobs throughout 2009.

In the early years of the 20th century the Irish language increasingly was associated with poverty and backwardness. In the national school system, which was established in 1831, children had been beaten with what became known as a ‘tally stick’ if they were caught speaking Irish. Apparently every time a child was heard speaking Irish, a notch was cut on the stick, and the poor child received the same number of blows.

Coláiste Chonnacht will celebrate its centenary on Saturday evening with the launch of a new book.

The life and work of the late, great Mick Lally will be celebrated on TG4’s primetime arts series Imeall tonight at 10pm and will be repeated on Tuesday at 8pm.

Irish emigrants have made major contributions to Canadian, Argentinean, American, British, and Australian life, but what might the world have missed out on if the Irish had not emigrated?

An Taibhdhearc could soon be taking on the role of the phoenix rising from the ashes as a funding life-line deal has been struck between the theatre’s board of management and the Galway City Council.

The potential of establishing links with Universities outside of Ireland that teach Irish with a view to developing language study breaks was highlighted at a meeting of the Cultural, Education, Heritage and Corporate Affairs SPC of Mayo County Council this week.

OÍCHE AIRNEÁN sa Chathair, Conradh na Gaeilge’s series of cultural evenings, returns on Tuesday in Árus na nGael at 8.30pm.

As the emigration trend continues to draw young and old from our shores, new networking groups to connect Irish people abroad are coming on stream.