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The Carers Association Kilkenny has launched its pre-budget submission, imploring the Government not to introduce further cuts to vital social welfare payments and services for Kilkenny's family carers.

Earlier this year, the IHCPT — the Irish Pilgrimage Trust — celebrated its 40th anniversary. Each Easter Sunday approximately 1,000 pilgrims in various different groups leave Ireland destined for a fun-packed week in Lourdes including the Mayo group known as Group 95.

The Mayo BRI Support Group are meeting on Monday October 17 in the Le Chéile Community & Family Resource Centre, Tucker Street, Castlebar from 7.30pm to 9pm.

The St Brendan’s Carers Outreach Support Group is due to recommence meeting after the summer break. The next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday October 25 in The Amenity Centre, Mulranny and will take place between 10am and 1pm.

St Michael’s House, Ireland’s largest provider of community-based services for people with an intellectual disability, has teamed up with The Carers Association to launch the third annual ‘Santa Swim’ in an attempt to pack Santa’s sleigh with educational and sporting equipment for St Michael’s House, and support The Carers Association’s respite hours, outreach services and National Care Line in time for Christmas.

Cadbury Roses and Friends of the Elderly announced the Mayo winner of the 2011 Grandparent of the Year competition. Maureen McAndrew from Belmullet was nominated by her 18-year-old grandchild Holly McAndrew. Her loving entry was highly complimentary of her grandmother: “My granny is a kind and loving person and a great parent and grandparent. She is a remarkable woman who was a young widow and had a hard life but always cared for her 10 children. My 16 cousins and I are very grateful to have her in our lives! She deserves to be grandparent of the year because she looks after us all with her prayers, home-made brown bread, chicken soup and a few euro on pension day! She might be 85 but she is always great fun to be around and I am very thankful to have her!”

Mayo Sports Partnership is to host an activity, accessibility, and healthy lifestyle themed conference on Thursday October 6, in the TF Royal Hotel, Castlebar, from 9.30am to 4pm.

To address the issue of not restraining children properly in cars, the RSA is taking its Check It Fits Roadshow on the road again, from the October 8 to 12. The roadshow will visit Humbert Street car park in Ballina on Saturday October 8 from 10am to 5pm. At the roadshow, parents, guardians, and grandparents will be given the opportunity to get their child’s car restraint fitted by an expert, free of charge.

To mark World Alzheimer’s Day next Wednesday September 21 Home Instead Senior Care in Mullingar has published a new guide to help family caregivers look after loved ones with dementia at home.

Molloy’s Lifestyle Pharmacies and Health Stores will be taking part in the Bump and Beyond Expo which is taking place in the Event Centre at Breaffy Hotel Resort, Castlebar, on Sunday September 4, between noon and 5pm.