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“Misleading and inaccurate” is how Fianna Fáil Galway West TD Frank Fahey has described opposition claims that taxpayers will lose out on bank payments from AIB and Bank of Ireland.

Transition year students and the school choir in Gairmscoil Mhuire, Athenry, have just released a new album Ceol na Scoile, featuring Christmas carols as Gaeilge.

The latest list of feeder schools to third level education published this week shows that the numbers of students who sit their Leaving Certificate and go on to third level education is still very high. One school in the county, St Gerald’s College, Castlebar, had 98 students sit the Leaving Cert in 2009, and according to the report 100 per cent of them went on to third level with NUI Galway the top choice for those students, with 28 going there.

The Teagasc office in Castlebar, which serves as the headquarters of the advisory service in Mayo, is to close with the redeployment of nine staff members.

The Royal Theatre Castlebar is delighted to present the brainchild of comedian and satirist Mario Rosenstock, the phenomenal Gift Grub which comes to life on stage in Castlebar for the very first time on Friday April 9 2010.

Enda Kenny is delighted to endorse an exciting White Collar Boxing Extravaganza on behalf of the Mayo branch of the Irish motor neurone disease association (IMNDA) — a group of volunteers who have come together to raise local awareness and funds on behalf of the association. They are now seeking local heroes and heroines to volunteer to take part in a six week intensive boxing training course and then perform three rounds in the boxing ring next March, while at the same time raising much needed funds and awareness on behalf of the association.

The Knorr Student Chef of the Year competition is back for a 13th year and this time Knorr has turned up the heat on its competitors with a challenge to reinvent age-old traditional Irish recipes. Old family favourites such as bacon and cabbage, coddle and Irish stew will be given a fresh twist of creative seasoning to produce modern, 21st century Irish recipes that bear the distinguished hallmark of traditional Irish cuisine that Ireland has become famous for.

County Galway will be given the highest priority in flood relief works by the Office of Public Works from next year, according to Minister of State with responsibility for the OPW Martin Mansergh.

A local production company will honour the work of new and innovative Irish fashion designers with the first “Fashion Innovation Awards” which will take place at the Radisson Blu hotel on March 18.

Fine Gael leader Enda Kenny TD has welcomed all the donations received at the flood relief centre established by the local Fine Gael organisation in Castlebar last week.