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Mayo has raised a staggering €35,252 which will go towards the rollout of the Irish Cancer Society’s Care to Drive service. Care to Drive is a volunteer driving service for cancer patients. These funds from Mayo locals were raised after year one of Tesco’s two year charity partnership with the Irish Cancer Society, which overall has raised €950,000 across the country.

IN WHAT promises to be one of the highlights of this year’s Cúirt, singer-songwriter Sean Tyrrell will premiere his new show Who Killed James Joyce, inspired by the poems and life-stories of some of Ireland’s foremost poets, both past and present.

Our image today is of an original drawing done in 1958 by Belfast artist Raymond Piper (now deceased) of the beautiful staircase in the Great Southern Hotel. When one entered the hotel, the reception desk was to the left, there was a small corridor leading to the dining room on the left, and another leading to the bar on the right. Just past these was a comfortable lounge area, and at the end of this was this magnificent staircase leading to reception rooms upstairs, and directly to the station platform.

With this year’s Daffodil Day now just weeks away, the Irish Cancer Society is calling for volunteers to help with the annual fundraising event.

The Irish Cancer Society is calling on people in Kilkenny to come out and collect at this year’s Daffodil Day, as the society aims to reach a national target of €3.7 million.

This year’s Daffodil Day will take place across the country on Friday March 25 and the Irish Cancer Society is calling on everyone in Mayo to come out and collect on the day at a location convenient to them. Further information on becoming a volunteer is available from the Daffodil Day team on CallSave 1850 60 60 60.

“A man without a moustache is like a cup of tea without sugar” goes an old English proverb, and if you agree you should take part in Movember.

The Ard Rí Hotel which slices through the counties of Kilkenny and Waterford is to be served with a dereliction order jointly by Kilkenny and Waterford local authorities.

We should ban the selling of alcohol in supermarkets and this would go some way towards solving some of the problems associated with drinking in public places.

Kilkenny County Council is setting about taking new housing estates in charge including those where developers have been liquidated or those that require work to be completed.