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Tributes have been paid to Professor Kevin Boyle— a founder of the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI, Galway — who died this week.

A new on-line mentoring service offering expert advice from retired people was launched this week, in the form of www.Silentknowledge.eu - “an online community of retirees contributing to the business landscape by imparting their expert knowledge and know-how to a younger generation of up and coming entrepreneurs.”

DURING THE last couple of months, I have witnessed two incidents where different individuals were in no doubt of the fact that they knew their rights - one at a supermarket checkout and the other in a local post office.

Amnesty International's new Ambassador of conscience honoree, Peter Gabriel and former recipient U2's The Edge launched the organisation's Small Places Tour in London last week. The event, held at the Hard Rock Café, outlined a preliminary list of 500 Small Places concerts in 47 countries. Organisers expect the list to grow to 1,000 concerts.

Imprisoned school teacher Maura Harrington who was invited to speak at an event in London arranged by a coalition of human rights organisations, was unable to do so because she was still detained in Mountjoy Prison. The event, which took place on Monday, was organised by the remember saro-wiwa coalition to highlight the Wiwa vs Shell trial.

A miscarriage of justice which saw a Galway man being wrongly convicted of sexually assaulting a young girl could now cost the State up to €1 million in compensation.

The Galway Refugee Support Group will hold a coffee morning on Thursday October 1 between 10.30am and 12 noon to mark the launch of its new website www.grsg.ie.