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Athlone Community College students Michelle McHugh, Mark Roche, Sorcha McManus, and Gavin Ward, along with school principal Eileen Donohoe, recently returned from an eye-opening trip to Rwanda in Africa. The trip was awarded as their prize for winning the 2010 Concern All-Ireland debating competition.

Oxfam Ireland is calling on the people of Kilkenny to join them for a day of fun and festivities to celebrate Donation Day.

Louisburgh man Robert Henaghan has organised a triathlon to take place in the town on June 5.

Trocaire has revealed that Westmeath people place gifts for the developing world at the top of their Christmas shopping lists, spending €36,421 on Trocaire’s Christmas gifts last year.

people place gifts for the developing world at the top of their Christmas shopping lists, spending €60,929 on Trocaire’s Christmas gifts last year.

Local volunteers who set up training projects in bee keeping and honey production for farmers in southern Malawi in Africa recently returned from a five week assignment there assessing existing projects.

The remarkable story of Fr Padraig Ó Máille, a humanitarian priest from Louisburgh, who was deported from Malawi during the reign of the brutal Banda regime and has since become Honorary Consul for that country in Ireland, is told in a documentary which will be broadcast on Midwest Radio over Christmas.

Gardaí are renewing their appeal for public assistance in relation to the murder of 25 year old Paiche Onyemaechi Unyolo from Malawi, whose headless body was discovered in south Kilkenny some five years ago this week.

Four members of the Galway based Malawi charity, Zikomo, headed to central Africa on Sunday for two weeks to oversee the final construction stages of its second community resource centre. The trip is the second so far this year.

THE NUI Galway Chamber Orchestra will hold a fundraising concert for Zikomo in the upper Aula Maxima, NUIG, on Monday at 8pm.