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A lecturer at NUI Galway who pulled off a David Blaine-style fundraising stunt in which he was suspended in a Perspex box has managed to raise almost €40,000 for Haiti.

One month after the earthquake hit Haiti and killed 230,000 people, Trocaire’s director Justin Kilcullen has thanked the people of County Mayo who contributed significantly to the €3.5 million the agency has already received in donations to help people there. Some three million people are in need of food aid.

GALWAY SINGER-songwriter Emmet Scanlon is going to Haiti to help the Haven charity’s work in building houses for the earthquake stricken island.

An Athlone-based pharmacy is using a direct link to earthquake-stricken Haiti to ensure vital medical supplies are delivered to those who need them most.

Kilkenny-based artist Niamh Curry has persuaded some 30 fellow artists, including internationally renowned Gottfried Helnwein and Bob Dixon, to donate works for an exhibition in The Narrow Space Gallery, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, with all proceeds going to GOAL's Haiti Earthquake Appeal.

This Sunday (February 7) take part in a run in Galway to help raise money which will go directly to Westport woman Gena Heraty who is working for an orphanage in Haiti.

Pupils from the Quay School, Westport, held a no uniform day recently in aid of Haiti. A total of €1,606 was collected and lodged to the Gena Heraty Fund in AIB Westport.

The superintendent of Castlebar Willie Keaveney told Castlebar District Court on Wednesday that the “influx of cocaine into Castlebar concerns me greatly”. The superintendent’s comments were made in relation to a case where a business student from Castlebar was found in possession of cocaine.

The annual Solemn Novena, which take place at Galway Cathedral from February 8 to 16, will bring a message of hope and consolation to people disspirited by growing problems.