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Ireland has made remarkable road safety progress over the last decade and is now the sixth safest country out of 27 EU member states.

FRANCE’S LUMIÈRE brothers may have gone down in history as the pioneers of cinema when they stunned Parisenne audiences by screening their films in 1895.

Fine Gael councillor Brian Walsh has welcomed the party’s plans to double the funding for suicide prevention to €10m a year, if elected to form part of the next government, after new figures released by the HSE revealed that 29 people died by suicide in Galway in 2009.

Junior Chamber International Galway hosted its annual Christmas ball and awards ceremony in the Harbour Hotel recently where the voluntary activities and efforts of members were recognised and the end of a successful year for 2010 branch president Victoria Whelan was celebrated.

Surprise, surprise, we didn’t win Eurovision again. The only one who seemed to think we had a chance was Marty Whelan, who kept blabbering on about how unfair the whole thing was to our little country, battling against the odds out on the edge of Europe. Let’s face it, Enda McEvoy has a better chance of getting a free weekend pass from the Cats Laugh Festival organisers than Niamh Kavanagh had of winning the competition.

Cllr Anne Phelan has spoken out about the issues surrounding mental health following the recent publication of a HSE report on suicide prevention.

Independent MEP Marian Harkin has established with the European Commission that head shop products can be controlled immediately on the basis of public health or safety. The British decision to ban the legal high substance Mephedrone has been warmly welcomed by the Independent MEP as clear evidence that the Irish government can make a similar instant decision based on public health and safety.

A selection of Carlow’s u12 Academy have just returned from a very successful trip to Sweden, where they finished second in the 2008 Orebro Cup. This year’s tournament in Orebro was one of the largest to date, with over four hundred teams from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Estonia and Ireland taking part.

Join the Gaisce Gold Award group being facilitated by Iorras Le Chéile. The award also involves taking part in a group visit to Estonia during summer 2009 to assist in a community project.

Students from Mercy Secondary School, Kilbeggan were locked in intense negotiations at the mock European Council this week.