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Midlands Simon Community is asking people to show their solidarity for those experiencing homelessness in the Midlands by joining Team Midlands Simon this year for a sporting event or challenge. Whether it’s a triathlon or an egg and spoon race, Team Midlands Simon needs you to take the challenge and help end homelessness through sport.

A local charity which provided accommodation and counselling to more than 500 women and children experiencing domestic violence last year is to set up a new refuge in the city.

Whether or not the controversial report this week about the Polish woman 'Magda' living the high life courtesy of the generous Irish social welfare system was entirely accurate or not matters little; what matters a lot however is that, just as with the 'mad and greedy' economy-crashing Irish people that our Taoiseach so readily informed the World Economic Forum about last week, much of the report contents were actually true.

What a boost Allergan gave the county when it announced on Monday morning the creation of 200 jobs, 250 construction jobs, and an investment of $350 million in the Westport company.

Threshold, the national housing charity, was founded in 1978 and is a not-for-profit organisation whose aim is to secure a right to housing, particularly for households experiencing the problems of poverty and exclusion. Its main concentration of work is within the rented sector.

Brian Cody launched a Home School Community Liaison (HSCL) led literacy initiative in Grennan College in Thomastown on Wednesday November 9.

For fear it might sound like the business community is continually harping on about how difficult their lot genuinely is, it might be worth pointing out this week exactly what it means to be a person in business – particularly running your own business – in this day and age. The best way to present the case for the business community is to compare and contrast it with that of the employee. Let's start with the employee.

A graduate from Athlone IT has been awarded an internship with one of Ireland’s leading production companies for his involvement in a prestigious national internship competition run by the Digital Hub Development Agency (DHDA).

Westmeath based company Roadstone Wood Ltd, which is owned by CRH, is to donate €7,000 to Simon Community projects in the county this year, through a safety in the workplace initiative with the homelessness charity.

Burgess Department Store in Athlone and Midlands Simon have launched a wonderful new partnership designed to reward people for showing their support for those affected by homelessness in our community.