Brain injury support group
Fri, Jul 08, 2011
The BRI advocacy and peer support group, for people who have experienced a trauma to the brain, will be having its monthly meeting in the Le Chéile Community and Family Resource Centre, Tucker Street, Castlebar, on Monday July 18 from 7.30pm to 9pm.
Read more ...Career Column
Fri, Jul 08, 2011
1. Too much information – which sounds like a line from a sitcom, but, it is particularly true in a CV. Don’t ask the employers to wade through oceans of information. They may even decline to do so - and, even if they read it, you run the risk of the employer not seeing the important stuff you want them to see.
Read more ...Science Ireland celebrates ten year anniversary
Fri, Jul 08, 2011
Science Ireland, originally established as the True Physics Project in 2001, celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The project was established to promote the physics curriculum, and in so doing, assist schools in their bid to retain students of the subject.
Read more ...Gortskehy NS features on community TV channel
Fri, Jul 08, 2011
Gortskehy National School is the first primary school in Ireland to have the pupils' video work featured on An Lar TV, a community TV channel for the Irish Diaspora. anlar.tv has an audience of between 2,500 and 3,000 people a day in some 50 countries. Gortskehy school joins a list of other educators providing content for the channel such as the University of Limerick, the Royal College of Science at UCD, and the Irish School of Animation in Dublin.
Read more ...Grant changes threaten future of college education for GMIT students
Fri, Jul 08, 2011
With government agencies such as the Western Development Commission suggesting there should be a focus on education as part of the push to create jobs and growth in the west it is clear that colleges such as GMIT Castlebar are of huge significance for the area.
That is according to three time GMIT Castlebar student union president Alan Judge who has welcomed the conclusions of the WDC and is encouraging all students, current and prospective, to apply to their grant awarding body as soon as possible.
Read more ...The Soap Box – A regular column in which readers tell us about what matters to them....
Fri, Jul 08, 2011
The ISPCC website features the heartbreaking story of Holly (15). After months of suffering at the hands of bullies at school and on a social networking site she plucked up the courage to contact the Childline One to One instant messaging service and admit that she was finding it hard to cope. Holly had her hair pulled and her lunch taken. She was being threatened and called names. Worst of all she was feeling isolated, scared and lonely as her former friends no longer talked to her.
Read more ...Hospital survey finds overcrowding at Mayo General is at a five-year low
Fri, Jul 08, 2011
Mayo General Hospital is one of the best performing hospitals in the country when it comes to the controversial issue of overcrowding.
Read more ...€9 million upgrade for Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme
Fri, Jul 08, 2011
A €9 million upgrade for the Lough Mask Regional Water Supply Scheme which was announced by Minister Phil Hogan this week has been welcomed by Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport Michael Ring.
Read more ...Work carried out on council houses with radon
Fri, Jul 08, 2011
Houses in the council’s housing stock, which were found to have above the recommended level of radon have been worked on, members of the housing SPC were informed on Monday.
Read more ...Mayo cancer patient waiting months for vital surgery
Fri, Jul 08, 2011
A Mayo cancer patient who has been waiting months for vital surgery was devastated to learn this week that her wait will be increased by at least another month.
Read more ...New Castlebar music festival committee to be formed
Fri, Jul 08, 2011
There was a great turn out at the recent meeting to discuss a proposed new festival in Castlebar at Bar Ritz on Tuesday June 28. A second meeting has being arranged next Tuesday July 12 at 8pm to put forward a working committee for the coming year.
Read more ...New Westport Cathaoirleach promises to ‘walk the walk’
Fri, Jul 08, 2011
New Cathaoirleach of Westport Town Council Councillor Christy Hyland said that he “will walk the walk, rather than talk the talk” during his time in the chair.
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