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Volunteer literacy tutors are needed to provide one-to-one tuition, with an awareness event for volunteers and learners taking place on February 3 from 2pm to 4pm at the Further Education Centre (Friary) Ballyhaunis.

The Joe Dolan memorial weekend planned for Mullingar will give local businesses an opportunity to present the town of Mullingar in its best light, according to the local chamber of commerce.

Work has commenced on major accessibility improvements at Athlone Train Station. These improvements are designed to give greater access to those with mobility and sensory impairments as well as offering improved facilities to families travelling with small children and those travelling with heavy baggage.

Are you looking for an extra special gift this Christmas? Mayo County Council’s Road Safety Officer could have the perfect answer – a gift voucher with a real difference.

Shoot 'n' Stars Special Olympics Mullingar were recently presented with a €5,000 Texaco Sportstars Bursary, the proceeds of which will be used to fund clothing, training, and travel.

A Galway VEC literacy project aimed at the fishing industry is among the shortlisted nominees of the 2008 Adults Continuing Education awards.

Galway student Conor Keane, who is studying Civil Law at NUI Galway has been awarded a prestigious Bank of Ireland scholarship. It is one of 80 new scholarships for third level education valued at over €1m.

Adult learners week is encouraging people to brush up on their skills or simply learn a new set of skills.

I met someone the other day who told me wide-eyed that she had never met anyone who didn’t have a job. In the two and a bit decades that she’d been on this earth, people losing their jobs just weren’t known to her. And that is how it has been for many people who have grown up seeing jobs as disposable as weekly contact lenses. If it was irritating you, you just flung it away and tried another. But a harsh reality is about to set in for us all which will see us all soon know a lot of people without jobs. Or be without jobs ourselves.

Mayo-native Dr Willie Golden has been appointed dean of the college of business, public policy and law at NUI Galway. He will have responsibility for the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, and the School of Law.