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After months of thorough preparation, over 2,000 volunteers, including 48 volunteers from Westmeath, are preparing to leave today to work in the township of Khayelitsha in Cape Town, South Africa. 

Official Green Dragon merchandise is now on sale in advance of the Volvo Ocean Race arriving in Galway next May.

For the Kerrys, Dublins, and Tyrones of this world success is measured in all-Ireland titles. Provincial honours are little more than a stepping stone to greater things. It is hard to explain to somebody from the counties mentioned above exactly how much winning a first ever senior provincial title meant to the players and people of the Lake County.

Ford’s hard working Ranger 4x4 was in service alongside the 2,000 Irish volunteers who helped build 253 houses at last week’s Niall Mellon Township Trust Building Blitz in Capetown.

Ford’s hard working Ranger 4x4 was in service alongside the 2,000 Irish volunteers who helped build 253 houses at last week’s Niall Mellon Township Trust Building Blitz in Capetown.

The Nobel Peace Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu will address NUI, Galway’s Literary and Debating Society on Sunday February 15 at 5pm.

Sir Bob Geldof will give the introduction to Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s lecture on aid, justice, and charity in Áras na Mac Léinn, NUI, Galway, on Sunday at 5pm.

The inaugural meeting of the Westmeath Volunteer Club of the Niall Mellon Township Trust was held on Tuesday February 24 in the Greville Arms Hotel, Mullingar. 

It was only from the ignition of the first metal cutter at the docks on Tuesday that local people could fully engage with the fact that the Volvo Ocean Race is to land on these shores in a little over a month. Only when the first metal was cut to dismantle the massive oil storage tanks, could we fully imagine the enormity of the event that is to visit these shores at the end of next month.

The Niall Mellon Township Trust will hold its inaugural Hard Hat Day - Homes for Children fundraiser in Galway tomorrow (Friday).