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Rotary Club of Athlone raise tree of remembrance funds for local charities
The Rotary Club of Athlone has been hosting the annual tree of remembrance initiative since 2010.
Time to start seeing the invisible homeless
There is an easy-held perception of homelessness that it comes about after a longrunning series of catastrophic events; that one’s life must have been on a spiral before they land at rock bottom; without a place to call their own, or a light to guide them in the tumble downwards.
Mayo success on the double at An Post Irish Book Awards
There was double success for Mayo at the An Post Irish Book Awards 2021 this week.
Galway Simon Community supported some 1,200 individuals in 2020, as homelessness crisis and Covid collide
Homelessness and housing charity Galway Simon Community launched its 2020 Annual Report revealing that the organisation supported 646 local households last year, a total of 1,216 individuals, through their Homelessness Prevention and Housing Services.
Galway Simon Community Detox Project — finding the window of opportunity
Minister Frank Feighan met with staff of Galway Simon Community recently to learn about the impact of a project working with people who have addictions to “Benzos”. The Community Detox Project established in 2019 has worked with 40 people to help them to reduce their drug use safely. He also met with GPs, and HSE staff who explained the difference this project had made to people seeking help.
Irish LGBT+ film gets world premiere at the Fleadh
WHO WE Love, a film about coming of age and coming out, and two friends navigating the troubled waters of school life and Dublin's LGBT+ scene, receives its world premiere at the 33rd Galway Film Fleadh.
Sleep Out for Simon aims to prevent homelessness across the West
Homelessness and Housing charity Galway Simon Community is calling on people across Galway, Mayo, Roscommon and beyond to take on their Virtual Sleep Out for Simon challenge to raise awareness and vital funds to help prevent homelessness in the West.
'Getting to Know...' - Conor O’Toole, filmmaker and comedian
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Danno, the quintessential Galwegian
He was one of those people who was known to all by just the one name, Danno, and that was not even his actual name. He was born Francis Brendan Heaslip in Knocknacarra in 1938. Because he looked very like a boxing champion of the times, Danno O’Mahoney, he was given the nickname and it stuck. He was one of six siblings born to Joe Heaslip from Cork and Maureen O’Donoghue from Tuam; Minnie, Jimmy, Michael, Danno, Helen, and Phil. They lived in Lenaboy Gardens in Salthill,.
