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Parents, grandparents, children, neighbours and friends packed out the Ballinglen Art Foundation in North Mayo on Friday last, at the launch a wonderful exhibition called ‘’Growth’’ - of 70 lantern light boxes , created by the children of Scoil Naomh Bríd Primary School in Ballycastle.

Would you like to make the most of the long summer days while learning, refreshing. or practising your French?

Three Moate Community School students have taken home the top prize at SciFest@TUS, one of Ireland’s largest regional science fairs for second-level students, held recently in Athlone.

There was great excitement in Castlebar on Friday April 1 when the Mayor of Hochstadt, Mr Gerald Brehm and local Sculptor Cathal Mc Carthy were welcomed to Davitt College by Principal Mr Conor O’Reilly.

Like all widows Nora had barely time to grieve. There was so much to be done. Both she and Giorgio and her grandson Stephen, were in a state of shock at Joyce’s sudden death. Joyce suffered indifferent health all his adult life, and endured a series of painful eye operations which had little effect on his looming blindness.

When I was quite young, before I had started school, I had a brief conversation with an older woman, the memory of which has remained with me ever since. She was a teacher of some sort, and the incident took place in what must have been a playschool, though as this was perhaps 60 years ago, when such things were hardly known, I cannot be sure.

Two Mayo students – both Masters graduates in Primary Education – had double cause for celebration after achieving ‘top of their class’ status at the annual Hibernia College conferring ceremony which was held at Dublin’s Convention Centre recently.

From the cages of Long Kesh in the 1970s, to the lecture halls and classrooms of NUI Galway this century, a love of writing and a passionate belief in the importance of education has been central in the life of Paddy McMenamin.

Although, I am sure he would chuckle his famous chuckle at the notion, the late Billy Horan brought more wonder to the homes and families of South Mayo than Walt Disney ever managed. For a few hours every week, his work brought the people of his place to a standstill, sat at the kitchen table, papers spread wide, fingers thumbing through the district notes detailing the beautiful structures that make up community life.

The team at Specsavers Ballina is delighted to announce Eoin Floyd from Crossmolina National School, as the over-10s winner of the Specsavers Irish Book Awards’ short story competition.