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After sifting through hundreds of nominations the winners of the Rehab Galway People of the Year Awards have been chosen and are due to be honoured at a glittering gala banquet and presentation at the Clayton Hotel on Saturday April 2.

The Night for Manuela Organising Committee won the Galway City Credit Union’s Volunteers of the Year at the eighth Annual Mayor’s Awards for Galway City.

A local man will raise funds for six of his favourite charities when he participates in the North Pole Marathon next year.

The Carlton Hotel, Dublin Road, Galway, will hold its December charity Christmas shopping event on Thursday December 9 from 7pm to 9pm. Tickets are priced at €10 and all proceeds of tickets sales will go directly to the Galway Hospice

Olympic gold medalist Michael Carruth will be the special guest at a boxing tournament in Galway on November 14.

An Taoiseach Brian Cowen has praised Galway Hospice staff for making an “extraordinary” contribution to the needs of the community.

It is a fact that when few people had a job in Galway the late Christopher (Christy) Dooley of Renmore Park, had many. They were all of an amazing variety. One of them was a factory on the Mervue Industrial estate where he made parts for German railway engines. He had a specialised scrap business in Munster Avenue, the site of the old family forge, where he recycled aeroplane parts and exported them to Spain.

A charity motorcycle run will take place on Sunday to raise funds for Galway hospice.

THE ENGLISH composer John Stainer was described by Sir Arthur Sullivan, of Gilbert & Sullivan fame, as “a genius”, and Co Galway will get to experience his music on Passion Sunday.

It may be called Seachtain na Gaeilge, but it’s actually a 12 day celebration of the Irish language, trad music, theatre, dance, literature, sport, and food and has something for everyone, from the fluent speaker to those with no Gaeilge at all.