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The next meeting of the Mayo Open Coffee Club will take place on Wednesday July 7 in GMIT’s Castlebar campus. The topic for the meeting will be ‘the use of social media for business.’

The next meeting of the Mayo Open Coffee Club will take place on Wednesday July 7 in GMIT’s Castlebar campus. The topic for the meeting will be ‘the use of social media for business.’

Ballinrobe Musical Society is celebrating this week after receiving nine nominations in the Annual Association of Irish Musical Societies Awards. Categories include the coveted Best Overall Show category, for its world amateur premiere of The Pirate Queen.

A fashion show in aid of Partry Athletic FC will take place in Partry Community Centre on Friday April 9 at 8pm.

“Creating opportunity in a downturn – Innovate or Die!” will be the theme of next week’s meeting of the Mayo Open Coffee Club, and the key speaker will be a Mayo man who has carved out a business niche in outer space.

When we think WAGS we think Posh Spice, Cheryl Cole, Alex Curran and Co. We’ve seen them in their Gucci shades and Jimmy Choos sitting in their cushioned thrones in the best seats of the stadium.

Western Lakes Cycling

The African country of Ethiopia consistently ranks among the poorest in the world. Since 1984, when pictures of desperate famine raced around the world, the country has become a byword for poverty. But when journalist Liam Horan visited recently with Irish humanitarian agency Self Help Africa, he was pleasantly surprised to find many signs of progress. Here he focuses on the work of the agency as it tries to bring about improvements in the lives of people accustomed to living on the edge.

Maybe not a lot of people know it, certainly not a lot of my generation, but it’s a fact – when Louth won the All-Ireland football title in 1957, there were two Mayo men on the team. And the two of them – Dan O’Neill and Seamie O’Donnell – actually played the entire second-half at midfield together, after Seamie moved out there from the half-forward line. Together, they drove Louth forward in what was a titanic struggle and, with their help, the Wee County’s perseverance paid off. Sean Cunningham scored a late goal to help them overcome Cork in the final that saw Padraig Harrington’s father, Paddy (since passed away, RIP) lose his second All-Ireland final on the trot.

The annual Association of Irish Musical Societies Awards nominations were announced last week and Ballinrobe musical society has been nominated in six categories, including the coveted Best Overall Show category, for its production of Chess.