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The Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar is pleased to disclose a very special update on its longstanding, swift nesting project in conjunction with Swift Conservation Mayo: - the arrival of twin baby swifts in nest boxes located on the exterior wall of the historic Linenhall building.

Policy-makers could really benefit from talking to children more. In a survey carried out at an event in June organised by the Galway National Park City initiative involving young people from 13 city primary schools, participants were asked what they loved most about Galway.

Has the planet declared war on humanity over the last year? It certainly seems so as we witness one destructive storm after another in Ireland, heatwaves across Europe and southern Africa, hurricanes leaving trails of destruction from the Bahamas to Mexico, wildfires from Greenland and Siberia to Australia, melting ice from Antarctica to the Arctic, droughts in India, locust swarms in east Africa, increasing acidification of the oceans leading to the loss of a third of the largest structure on earth (Great Barrier Reef), city dwellers dying from poisonous air, flooding at crisis levels on every continent, soils becoming less fertile, and birds disappearing from the skies, insects from the fields and fish from the oceans.

Founded in 2002, Zikomo is a Galway-based charity that is making a significant impact in tackling poverty and hardship in groups ofrural communities in Malawi, a small landlocked country located in Southern Africa.

The secret life of Ireland's bogs will be revealed in a new exhibition in Mountbellew next month.

The original gastropub in the West End of Galway, Massimo, has introduced enticing, bang up-to-date, daily and weekend brunch menus, designed by new head chef Andrew O’Halloran.