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This Friday June 25 Ability West will launch a memorial “raised garden” to honour the late Christopher (Christy) St George who worked with Ability West for more than twenty years. As a long-serving member of Ability West, he exemplified the hidden and dedicated lives of service to those with disabilities.

In the early 1990s the Mayos in Galway were getting so uppity that it was decided that action would be taken. It is believed that Seamus Keating, the legendary Galway city and county manager, and a Tipperary man to boot, was never slow in taking the hard decision. Exasperated by the controls exerted by the Mayos, their prestigious positions in all walks of life in the city, their swagger about the place, and the whingeing by the few Galwegians left on his staff at the unfairness of it all, one day he pressed the red button on his desk.

Always a pleasure to receive, awards are even more welcome when they are voted on by the most important people – the guests and visitors who eat, drink and stay in any hotel. Radisson Blu Hotel & Spa Galway, no stranger to awards of all kinds since opening in 2001, is delighted to have recently won two great awards as voted for by VIPs – their guests – a Studiosus Quality Award 2009 & a CIE Award of Excellence 2009.

The Radisson Blu hotel in Galway has signed up to Ireland’s Tourism Industry Visitor Charter which aims to highlight the good practice undertaken by the travel and tourism industry in the wake of the Icelandic ash cloud crisis.

One of Ireland’s leading PR Professionals, Jack Murray, will host a special communications masterclass in the Radisson hotel Galway on May 27.

Clown Around Lesotho, a documentary directed by Ballinasloe man Mike Casey and featuring Galway actor Jonathan Gunning, will be broadcast on Monday at 11.30pm on RTÉ 2.

Galway Executive Skillnet (GES) has launched a unique programme of free and subsidised business training for 2010.The organisation is now in a position to offer free training places on a number of its training programmes to those signing on the live register.

Galway Executive Skillnet (GES) has launched a unique programme of free and subsidised business training for 2010.The organisation is now in a position to offer free training places on a number of its training programmes to those signing on the live register.

Potato growers and other farmers throughout Galway who are facing financial ruin in the wake of the flooding and more recent cold spell are now calling on the Government to urgently provide assistance to save them from going out of business.

On Saturday night in Thurles a thrilling touch of the Irish sporting summer will be available as the All Ireland hurling championship is now in the long desired do-or-die phase. Whoever loses from here on in will be a mere afterthought in the tale of 2008 so there shouldn’t be any shortage of intensity or incentive.