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Reciting poetry, and balancing books on your head may have been part of the ordeal in becoming a lady in times gone by, but that has all changed now.

Struggling to think of the ideal gift on Father’s Day that says ‘I love you, dad’ that isn’t too hard on the pocket? It can be a difficult task! Gillette has produced three different value-for-money gift packs that will show dad just how special he is to you. It’s the perfect present to suit every type of dad; you’ll be spoilt for choice!

Kilkenny natives have more online social networking friends than their Leinster neighbours in Laois and Wexford, and their hurling neighbours in Limerick, according to a survey commissioned by 3, Ireland’s market leader in mobile broadband.

Rossport residents Willie and Mary Corduff and Vincent McGrath, chairman Pobal Chill Chomáin, met with the Norwegian Ambassador in the Norwegian Embassy in Dublin on Wednesday, in a meeting which was facilitated by the justice and peace group Afri.

The Association of Nigerians in Galway will hold an intercultural event to celebrate the Nigerian Independence Day.

Ray Rooney was a remarkable man. Tall, distinguished, elegant, articulate, he was the kind of person you’d want on your team batting for your side. The people you want standing on the wall, someone to look over you. As an ambassador, he was most impressive, and although officially the Honorary Norwegian Consul in Ireland, it was for his native Galway that he was most often on diplomatic duties. When he passed away last weekend after a short illness, there was tremendous shock at his death, not least because he was still very much part of what is happening around Galway city and county.

The late prominent city businessman Raymond Rooney was remembered this week as a man of energy and enthusiasm who possessed a “remarkable” can-do attitude.

Castlebar businessman and master chocolatier Dirk Schonkeren, who runs Helena Chocolates, the well known Castlebar café, has just been appointed as a World Chocolate Ambassador by the world’s biggest chocolate company, Barry Callebaut. The prestigious Chocolate Ambassador Club has just 70 members and Dirk is the first chocolatier in Ireland to receive the honour. He will attend a two-day seminar in Belgium and will then be called upon to share his master craft with other chocolatiers from around the globe. Dirk also plans to run some practical introduction to chocolate courses locally in the near future.

Kilkenny student Adrian O’Higgins has had a hectic schedule since beginning his internship for former-Republican presidential candidate and long-serving US Senator, John McCain.

The Japanese Ambassador to Ireland will stop in for a special visit to Galway City Museum tomorrow at 10am to see Irish children participating in the ancient Japanese art of origami.