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Need a well earned holiday but your friends or family are working when you wish to travel? Perhaps they are not interested in travelling to the same destinations as you. Is there some place that you always dreamed of visiting, but you were apprehensive about travelling on your own? Do you want to get away for Christmas and New Year?

The funeral has taken place of 15-year-old Niall Keenan, who tragically lost his life at the weekend following a road traffic collision in the Killucan area.

St Gerald’s College will this year celebrate 100 years in Castlebar. The upcoming October Bank Holiday weekend will see the centenary celebrations in full swing. All past pupils and past members of staff are encouraged to join in the celebrations. To assist past associates of St Gerald’s College keep up to date with the centenary celebration, a website has been set up which includes details of the celebrations as well as lists of past pupils dating back to the early 1900s. This site can be viewed at www.stgeraldscentenary.com

The Coole Park biannual series of cultural events continues this winter with a feast of culture for the upcoming Winter Arts and Heritage Programme 2009. The programme aims to integrate arts, culture, and education with a series of events for adults, young people, and families. Environment and heritage lectures, children’s drama and Lady Gregory plays, traditional Irish, Mexican, and classical music, creative writing, children’s outreach workshops, and an art exhibition by The Orchard Gort, all feature in the exciting programme of events taking place between now and December.

An Achill teenager who died after his car plunged off the edge of a cliff and into the Atlantic Ocean was laid to rest this week.

Grandparents in Castlebar have established a branch of the newly-formed Catholic Grandparents Association in the town.

Experience the triumph of the human spirit and the strength of will, with a few tears and laughs thrown in with equal measure!

The future of a burger van in the Market Square is to be severely restricted after the town council voted to proceed with a number of bylaws governing casual trading at its monthly meeting this week (November 2).

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Two NUI Galway students have been awarded the Chicago Student Social Work Scholarships by the Chicago Immigrant Support Centre. First year MA in social work programme students Marie Hoban from Liscarney, Co Mayo, and Bridget O’Hara from Salthill, Galway, will each receive a scholarship of $3,500. This is the second consecutive year that NUI Galway students from this programme have been awarded the scholarship.