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Portiuncula Hospital supporting UNICEF’s Childhood Immunisation Programme
This year staff working in Portiuncula University Hospitals are supporting UNICEF’s Childhood Immunisation Programme through the ‘Get a Vaccine, Give a Vaccine’ initiative.
One in two Irish people living abroad are thinking of coming home for Christmas
One in two Irish people living abroad are considering coming back to Ireland for Christmas, according to a new survey from FRS Recruitment. This is up from the 3 out of 10 who said they were planning to travel at this time last year.
People of Westmeath are asked to stand with GOAL this festive period
Irish humanitarian aid agency GOAL is launching this year’s hugely popular Christmas fundraiser, the GOAL Mile, for people across Westmeath, Ireland and abroad, with registration now open at www.goalmile.org.
Ronan’s Irish camino to raise funds and remember beloved niece
Ronan Scully will put his best foot forward with some of his lifelong friends again this year, as he embarks on his 4th Bay to Bay charity walk commencing on Saturday, November 6 next.
Westmeath County Council assisting Gardai following Athlone Civic Centre incident
Westmeath County Council has vowed to support the local Gardai with their ongoing investigations into a break-in and robbery incident which occurred at the Athlone Civic Centre during this past weekend.
Kinvara woman to row alone and unsupported across the ocean
Kinvara’s Dr Karen Weekes is a woman with a mission — for 70 days starting at the end of this year, she will row alone across 3,000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean, a feat that no Irishwoman has previously achieved.
Team Hope formally launch annual Christmas shoebox appeal
Team Hope are calling upon the people of Athlone and the Midlands region to support its annual Christmas shoebox appeal.
Should our Army be involved in what is happening in Mali?
“Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy,” Henry Kissinger once said, and any objective reader of Signal, the magazine of the Irish Commissioned Officers Association, might find it hard to disagree.
Scully still making a difference
“Our work is giving a leg up rather than a hand out,” Ronan Scully says about Self Help Africa’s willingness to make a difference.
Keepsakes - documenting a migrants journey
KEEPSAKES - CUIMHNEACHÁIN, a new exhibition at the Galway City Museum, will document the journey of 10 migrants to Ireland through the keepsakes they brought with them or the objects that helped them feel at home in Ireland.