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Galway Kettlebell Club members won six medals at the club’s second Kettlebell competition which attracted more than 100 athletes on Saturday.

Advocates for the immigrant community gathered in Castlebar recently to celebrate the Mayo Intercultural Action Oral History Project. The project, which was supported by South West Mayo Development Company, saw immigrants from different countries come together to record audio accounts of their lives and migration to county Mayo. Project participants included people from as far afield as Latvia, Poland, Russia, Nigeria, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Burma/Myanmar.

A new monthly session for singer-songwriters is starting in Matt Molloy’s, Westport, from February 25.

He is one of Mayo’s most famous sons who came to be known as a world renowned social activist, human rights campaigner, a statesman and an author, described as the Nelson Mandela of his era.

Next Thursday December 5 will see Our Lady’s Bower, Athlone host a festive charity bazaar in aid of local charity Rachel’s Wish to Walk.

The Galway sporting world will be getting behind Olympic Boxing Club’s Frankie Cleary who is guaranteed a bronze medal at least at the European Junior Championships in Russia.

The Galway People of the Year Special Achievement Award which will be presented at the annual awards black tie gala in the Galway Bay Hotel on Friday next November 1 goes to the Galway senior and intermediate camogie teams and management.

Athlone Little Theatre is taking to the All-Ireland Festival circuit again with not just one but two plays.

SPARTACUS, THE gladiator who led a slave revolt against Rome, has inspired freedom fighters, film-makers, and a ballet by the Bolshoi.

Last week, Athlone Credit Union hosted a delegation of credit union leaders, representing Albania, Russia, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, and Sierra Leone.