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The Irish Cancer Society is looking for volunteers for its Community Health Education Volunteer Programme (CHEP) to the West of Ireland in 2012.

Yourells Hair Salon on Eyre Street is supporting Daffodil Day tomorrow (Friday) by helping to raise vital funds for the Irish Cancer Society. The salon is donating €5 from every treatment on Daffodil Day to the charity to help support the cancer nursing services in the country.

The Irish Cancer Society, along with local cancer survivor Jennifer Hunt from Castlebar, would like to invite everyone to the official launch of Relay for Life Castlebar 2012, on Thursday, March 29 at 8pm in the TF Royal Hotel, Castlebar.

Volunteers from the Athlone Daffodil Day committee attended the launch of this year’s Daffodil Day which was held in the Aviva Stadium recently.

The Irish Cancer Society and Dell ask Mayo for help to reach this year’s Daffodil Day target set at €3.5million to help fund free patient care services. Daffodil Day will take place on March 23.

Recently Ballina, Swinford, and Castlebar Tesco’s staff and customers showed their support when they took part in the National Bag Pack and together raised more than €2,500 in aid of Tesco’s Charity of the Year, the Irish Cancer Society. Funds raised from the bag pack will go towards the national rollout of Care to Drive, a volunteer driving service for cancer patients.

Did you know that there are some 50 different types of hair loss, that common male hair loss can start as young as 14 years of age, or that 40 per cent of women lose hair after childbirth?

At the launch of the Irish Cancer Society’s Lung Cancer Awareness campaign 2012, the society has expressed concern at a recent report which shows lung cancer has overtaken breast cancer as the biggest cause of cancer death in women in Ireland for the first time. This year the society is encouraging everyone to Look After Your Lungs, know how best to prevent lung cancer, know the signs and symptoms and if you are concerned, go to your GP.

A local girl, who lost her mother to cancer just over a year ago, features in a new nationwide television ad campaign aimed at getting people to quit smoking.

With Ireland qualifying for Euro 2012 and the draw around the corner it is definitely time for a new Irish soccer theme song. Local Kilkenny man Niall Kenny and three friends have been busy causing a stir all the way down under in Melbourne, Australia, with their song ‘24 years ( We’re Going To Win The Euros)’. They have called themselves The Artistic Differences - better known as Kenneth Downie from Carrick-On-Suir in Waterford, Niall Kenny from Ballyragget, Kilkenny, Jack McCarthy from Dublin, and Ian Tilson from Waterford. The song was written by the four emigrants after Ireland’s Euro 2012 play-offs.