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Galway East Deputy Paul Connaughton has vowed to work tirelessly to help Irish sons and daughters abroad, the undocumented thousands in the US, the elderly in the UK, and the educated youth who have left in search of work elsewhere.

Are you a young person over the age of 12 who would like to meet up with other young people to socialise through Irish? Ceol 's Comhrá is a new group of young people who are interested in creating a space for Irish to be spoken in an informal, friendly, and relaxing atmosphere.

SINCE THE early Irish monks began laboriously to compile the Annals of Ireland the writing of the ‘History of Ireland’ has become something of a national sport for academics, historians, retired schoolteachers, journalists, with the odd eccentric thrown in for good measure.

Fine Gael social protection spokesman Michael Ring TD has warned that growing numbers of Irish emigrants returning to the country are being refused essential benefits like Jobseekers Allowance and Carers Allowance.

Local business woman Mary Rodgers, CEO of Stateside Solutions — a Galway City-based recruitment company received the prestigious Most Influential Women 2010 Award in New York on Monday (July 12) by Taoiseach Brian Cowen at the Irish Consulate on Park Avenue.

Local business woman Mary Rodgers, CEO of Stateside Solutions — a Galway City-based recruitment company received the prestigious Most Influential Women 2010 Award in New York on Monday (July 12) by Taoiseach Brian Cowen at the Irish Consulate on Park Avenue.

A public lecture on The Archaeology of the Irish Famine, by distinguished US Professor Charles E Orser jr, will take place in NUI Galway on Monday July 5 at 6pm in the D’Arcy Thompson lecture theatre (Arts/Science Building).

A local Fine Gael senator wants the legislation dealing with registering the deaths of Irish people abroad to be amended so that Irish citizens who die overseas can have their deaths registered at home.

A Galway man will get his legs waxed this week to raise money to fund a trip to Haiti.