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Nearly a week into indefinite strike action, Galway’s school secretaries and caretakers are more determined than ever to secure equal treatment and pension inclusion for the 2,600 staff affected nationwide.

Seventeen schools across Galway have been chosen to participate in this year’s Pollinator Project 2025, Ireland’s largest and longest-running pollinator education initiative.

Students from Gort Community School are leading a campaign for a safer cycling route along the Ennis Road (R458) and the Galway Road (R458), which will help protect students and local cyclists. The campaign calls for a dedicated cycle lane to be sectioned off along the hard shoulder of these regional roads, continuing the Labane cycle lane into Gort and extending all the way to Loughcutra National School.

A number of Galway schools are beginning the new academic year with an Irish Heart Foundation award for training their students in the lifesaving skill of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Conor Penney of Calasanctius College and Craughwell AC was outstanding. He smashed the Tailteann Games High Jump record with a huge 2.09 metre effort. Penney leaped up to 2.05 metres clearing all heights on his first attempt, and then set the record initially by jumping over at 2.07m and added further to it when clearing 2.09m on his second attempt for an amazing victory.

An Ardrahan student has been named as category winner in the 70th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.

Four Galway schools have received awards from the Irish Heart Foundation for training students in the lifesaving skill of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

Following on from their successes last year, students from Galway have taken multiple prizes at this year’s Student Enterprise Programme National Finals. The Finals of the Local Enterprise Office initiative took place on Friday in Croke Park.

Local enterprise office Galway has announced that teenage entrepreneurs from Gort and Salthill will represent Galway at this year’s student enterprise programme national finals on Friday May 5. The finals make a return to Croke Park for the first time since 2019.

Minister of State at the Department of Transport, Hildegarde Naughton, alongside the National Transport Authority and Santa Claus, has announced that 108 schools will be included in the Safe Routes to School Programme.