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Members of the business community throughout Galway are being invited to learn more about how they can thrive through digital transformation at an upcoming free online festival featuring leading business and technology speakers. This year’s itag AtlanTec Festival will reflect the surge towards digital business necessitated by the pandemic and explore how more companies and organisations can equip themselves for the future of work and the changed corporate environment post Covid-19.

The Society of Saint Vincent de Paul (SVP) has recorded an almost 20 per cent increase in calls for help in the first quarter of 2021.

Normally at this time of year, Mezzo-Soprano Anne Marie Gibbons is busy finalising her Festive Harmony Concert at the Westport Town Hall Theatre, which has been held there annually since December 2016.

Every year, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul provides help with food to thousands of families at Christmas to ensure that every family has what they need. This Christmas over 140,000 people in communities across the country will ask SVP for help with food fuel and basic clothing. This charity asks people to buy or get non-perishable food from their home and give it to your local SVP.

Four Galway businesses have launched a charity initiative to help keep people warm this winter.

As Christmas approaches there are many members of our community in need of help. Covid-19 regulations have, in common with many others, restricted some of our fund-raising efforts. However, this will not stop us attempting to fill the void, as the need does not disappear and we remain very conscious of peoples’ situations during the current pandemic. Our aim remains: provide Christmas vouchers to over 400 in need families/individuals, who are identified in collaboration with SVP, Simon and Social Services Staff. We also will be fundraising for various projects that we run during the year.

“St. Vincent de Paul has had an enormous impact on my life. The effect SVP has had on my ability to go to University cannot be overstated. Without the help of SVP over the last few years, I would not have been able to complete my education,” said a local woman this week.

A Galway couple have won a once-in-a-lifetime prize of a luxury wedding at the Virginia Park Lodge in County Cavan.

Postmasters have urged a full return to weekly collection of all social protection payments at post offices.

A large number of community organisations have stepped up to the plate to help out those in need during the Covid-19 outbreak - in this weeks Community Diary we have listed a number of htem.