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Ireland’s biggest ever white collar boxing event is set to take place on March 11 at the Black Box Theatre in aid of the Irish Heart Foundation. Thirty male and female boxers are currently coming to the end of a tough nine-week programme with Black Dragon Gym, which is preparing them for the big night.

Galwegians will be targeting visitors Old Belvedere for a crucial Ulster Bank League division 1A fixture in Crowley Park on Saturday (2.30pm).

The Alzheimer Society of Ireland has launched its General Election 2016 campaign ‘Vote to Remember’ as it reveals the numbers set to develop dementia nationally will jump by 11 people a day to 68,000 by the end of the next Government. Currently there are people in 1,835 Mayo living with dementia, by the end of the next government that will have increased to 2,569.

The Irish Heart Foundation’s second annual On The Dry campaign supported by 2FM has attracted nearly 3,000 registrants over the Christmas period so far from people looking to make a fresh, alcohol-free start in 2016.

Go ‘On the Dry’ this January in aid of the Irish Heart Foundation, is the pre-festive plea from beloved Father Ted actor Frank Kelly and the RTÉ 2FM Breakfast Republic crew, Jennifer Maguire, Bernard O’Shea, and Keith Walsh.

German company phenox GmbH is to establish a medical device manufacturing facility in Galway, creating up to 65 jobs over five years.The development is supported by the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation through IDA Ireland.phenox Ireland Ltd. will manufacture interventional neurovascular medical devices for the treatment of aneurysms and stroke.

Medtronic plc, a global leader in medical technology, services and solutions, this week announced a new manufacturing facility in Galway that will manufacture the market-leading IN.PACT® Admiral® drug-coated balloon (DCB) for the treatment of peripheral artery disease (PAD). PAD is a build-up of plaque in arteries throughout the body leading to reduced blood flow to the limbs, organs, and the brain. Patients with PAD are at higher risk for stroke and heart attack.

A recent awareness campaign aimed at alerting farmers in Mayo to the signs and symptoms of a heart attack has won a top award at this year’s Irish Medical Times Healthcare Awards. This innovative project stemmed from a collaboration between local heart and stroke charity Croí and the HSE in Mayo as part of the on-going work of the Mayo Action on Heart Disease and Stroke Programme. The winning initiative was jointly led by Croí nurse Ailish Houlihan and Ann Marie Brown, cardiac rehab co-ordinator at Mayo General Hospital.

A postgrad researcher in GMIT’s Medical Technology Research Centre, GMedTech, has won the 2015 National Thesis in 3 final, held in the Sugar Club, Dublin, recently.

Athlone claimed a 1-6 to 0-6 Leinster Intermediate Football Championship semi-final victory over Wexford’s Glynn-Barntown.