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The Medtronic Chorale were singing on high after winning the top prize in the 2015 Galway Choir factor Competition which took place in the Radisson Blu Hotel on Saturday night.

Gort will play host to a WB Yeats-themed parade this weekend as part of a week of festivities to mark St Patrick’s Day.

The Galway Lions Club is issuing a heartfelt ‘Thank you’ to everybody who has donated to the service over the past number of weeks.

Some 5,340 meals has been collected by Lions Club and Tesco volunteers in Tesco stores in Mayo during a two-day Christmas food appeal.

The Church of the Holy Rosary in Castlebar was the venue for a very special performance of Handel’s Messiah last Sunday night.

Donal O’Shea, who for years worked in Clare Island and who put on a number of exciting and well received singles weekends on the island, is looking to bring people together again this time in Castlebar in assocation with Castlebar Lions Club as a fundraiser.

In 1961, Seán Keane, a parent of a child with an intellectual disability, wrote a letter to the Connacht Tribune. He was looking for what all parents want for their children, a chance for them to achieve their full potential whether they be disabled or not. He got no response, so two months later he wrote again, this time a reply to his own letter. The National Association of Mentally Handicapped in Ireland had just been established, it saw the letter and it asked the local Irish National Teachers Organisation in the shape of Mick Raftery and Mícheál McSweeney to call a meeting.

People affected by suicide are invited to attend a facilitated self help support group meeting tonight (Thursday) at 8.30pm at Hayden’s Hotel, Ballinasloe.

Easter party for aware

Cancers Survivors Choir Something to Sing About are the latest choral singers to sign up for Choirfactor- Galway’s own X Factor style choral competition.