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Ireland and the UK’s leading machine tool suppliers will be afforded the unique opportunity of face-to-face meetings with multinational manufacturers at this year’s Manufacturing Solutions Ireland, to be held in LIT Moylish Campus on Wednesday June 12, 2019.

The Gaelic Players Association (GPA) and the Women’s Gaelic Players Association (WGPA) have announced a number of new scholarships open to members of the organisations, in association with Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT). The scholarships are jointly funded by GMIT and the associations.

I hope you all had a good weekend. What was I up to? Well, I spent my weekend in Moate. Now I know in this column I often talk about the various places I have been to, so that is why I’m telling you I went to the Westmeath election count in Moate. I went on Saturday night, and we waited, and we waited, and we waited, in vain, for the votes to arrive over from Athlone Institute of Technology, which had divided all the votes into local, European, and divorce referendum and was dispatching them to the various places. But the Westmeath votes failed to arrive, and having waited from around 4pm I came home around 7pm and vowed I would go the next day.

Irish owned IT solutions and managed services company, Arkphire, has appointed Oliver Surdival as Head of Cloud Services. The move follows Arkphire’s acquisition last year of CloudStrong, a specialist cloud solution provider which was founded by Oliver Surdival and based in Castlebar, Co Mayo.

GMIT has said it will begin the procedure of selecting and appointing a new president for the institute following the resignation of Dr Fergal Barry this week.

‘Go Wild’ is back this weekend for its fourth year running. This free festival of wildlife brings together a number of local Galway wildlife organisations to help us discover more about the wealth of wildlife on our doorstep.

I’m going to begin this column with really interesting creative and exciting news. Last Friday night I was invited to launch a book called Tales from the Heart – New Creative Writing from Athlone Institute of Technology. Now, this is a compilation by Mick Donnellan of nineteen writers who attended his creative writing course for the last number of months. The course is conducted under the aegis of the Department of Lifelong Learning in Athlone IT.

Galway City Harriers U18 girls' team provided the highlight of the day for the county at the final day of the National Juvenile Indoor Championships in the Athlone IT Arena.

Galway youngsters enjoyed another medal haul on the first weekend of the National Juvenile Indoor Championships in the Athlone IT Arena.