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Funding for sports clubs is to increase by more than 60 per cent to €125,000 in 2014, a measure that is due to be passed at the Galway City Council budget meeting in City Hall tomorrow.

Next year will be the year of bringing the arts to schools — that is the intention of Westmeath’s county arts officer Miriam Mulrennan who gave an update on progress in the county’s arts office for this year.

Within a month of moving to Mullingar from Dublin to make a fresh start, a mother of three has twice been found so drunk that she couldn’t stand.

The 16th Galway Science and Technology Festival, part of National Science Week, sponsored by Medtronic, kicks off next Monday 11th November and runs for two-weeks until the November 24. The aim of the festival is to instil a love of science and technology in students from a young age.

Calor, Ireland’s leading supplier of rural energy solutions, has this week announced the shortlist of nominees for the Community Champion 2013. The all-island initiative is now entering its second year, after an unprecedented response in 2012. Following several weeks of intense nominating, they have received entries from every corner of Mayo. Tom Jennings has been shortlisted as the Mayo nominee for the Community Champion initiative.

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

Moy Valley Resources has won a tender competition for a three month contract valued at €10,000 (including VAT) to prepare a marketing and promotions plan for Ballina. The members of Ballina Town Council were informed of the news at the October monthly meeting of the authority this week, by town manager Paddy Mahon. There was some surprise among a number of councillors who had assumed that the council would appoint an individual to the post using funding they had set aside in their budget for this year.

St Mary’s Church in Athlone was packed to the rafters last Sunday as it hosted, for the first time, the ordination of a bishop.

A judge used some advice from a prison officer this week (September 19) to ensure a sentence given to a shoplifter could not be cut short by the governor.

Westmeath Civil Defence is looking for volunteers. Civil Defence is a volunteer-based organisation whose members are proud to serve as high quality back-up to the primary emergency services and the local community.