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The world’s biggest sailing event, the 10th Volvo Ocean Race, will arrive in Ireland for the first time on May 23. Following the transatlantic leg, racing from Boston, it will arrive and stay in Galway for a two-week stopover before leaving on the next leg for Goteborg in Sweden.

Ireland’s premier party band, The LOLS, have just been added to the Kilbeggan race card in a bank holiday special this Sunday May 31.

The generosity, ingenuity, and innovation of young people who are active in their communities was evident at the permanent tsb Foróige Youth Citizenship Regional Awards which took place in the Tullamore Court Hotel last week.  

Students in four local post-primary schools are to benefit from access to high-speed broadband as part of a new Government project.

Best Dressed Lady, in association with Athlone Towncentre and Club S/ Auld Shebeen Moate, will commence this Saturday night with a food and drinks reception in the The Auld Shebeen and live entertainment with Mullingar band Code-Red.

Eight locations across the county, including the aforementioned dyke, will host just some of the 1,000 events taking place nationwide for Heritage Week between August 22-30.

Moate Business College is the leading provider of further education in the Midlands. It provides full-time and part-time courses for approximately 450 students each year. Courses range from Childcare to Art and Design, and Sport and Leisure to Computer Studies. There is a choice of 14 different courses. Students at MBC benefit from top of the range facilities and equipment much of which has been upgraded – once again - during the summer of 2009. The college offers students the opportunity to study in a friendly environment, which caters for their needs. Upon completion of their studies at MBC, students will receive a FETAC certificate combined with other qualifications such as the BTEC Diploma in Social Care or the OCR Higher Diploma in Administration. With these qualifications students are fully equipped to enter the work force or to progress to degree courses in higher education colleges.

The progression of Moate’s Clara Road once again leads the development stakes in Westmeath with the news that a Mr Barry Smith has submitted an application to build 14 townhouses and five apartments in three blocks at the above address.

Developing an action plan to secure the future of rural shops and businesses at the heart of rural communities is the objective of a national seminar being held in Castlepollard, Co Westmeath on Tuesday, September 29.

A man arrested after a high speed chase up the M6 motorway on Wednesday (September 16) after an alleged armed robbery of a sub-post office in Irishtown, Athlone was remanded in custody yesterday (September 17) after Gardai opposed bail.