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The annual sponsored walk on Clare Island will this year be held on Saturday June 25.

BRI is a national brain injury advocacy and support organisation, which co-ordinates support groups throughout Ireland.

Following Primetime Investigates revelations about the effects of State cuts on the lives of family carers, the Carers Association has unveiled its ‘One Voice’ campaign. The organisation is urging Mayo’s 5,440 family carers to join it in the fight for a better life for family carers.

Brí is the independent support and advocacy organisation for people who experience brain injury and their carers in Ireland.

Sunday June 12: Barbecue for carers from Mayo, Sligo, Roscommon, Mullingar, and Offaly on the grounds of Cuisle, the Irish Wheelchair Association’s holiday centre outside Roscommon. Cost €10.

The Regional Alzheimer Society and Local Carers Association have slammed the “eye-opening” findings of RTÉ Prime Time Investigates, which has found that more than 82 per cent of family carers have been affected by cutbacks in State services and are living in poverty.

Anyone who watched with horror the final RTÉ Prime Time Investigates programme of the season on Monday night could be nothing other than shocked and heartbroken at the tragic stories depicted in the show.

The Regional Alzheimer Society and Local Carers Association have slammed the “eye-opening” findings of RTÉ Prime Time Investigates, which has found that more than 82 per cent of family carers have been affected by cutbacks in State services and are living in poverty.

Anyone who watched with horror the final RTÉ Prime Time Investigates programme of the season on Monday night could be nothing other than shocked and heartbroken at the tragic stories depicted in the show.

I don’t think there was a person in the country who wasn’t touched in some way or other by this week’s Prime Time Investigates programme, which was aired on RTE on Monday night last.