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LAST WEEKEND saw worldwide ceremonies observing International Holocaust Memorial Day, including a commemoration at Dublin’s Mansion House, attended by President Michael D Higgins.

“The biggest news story in Mayo since Knock Airport” is how one insider described the revelation this week that a major dark fibre optic cable from Mayo to New York is set to be developed.

Kilkenny Triathlon Club has added yet another success story to its recent good run of form.

The recently established Kilkenny Triathlon Club has been shortlisted as a finalist at the Irish Web Awards in the Best Sports website category.

A table thought to have been acquired for Tyrone House in Galway is attracting considerable interest at an auction by one of the world’s oldest and largest sellers of fine art and antiques. Bonhams, the privately owned British auction house, estimate the table to be worth up to €170,000.

It’s a troubling irony that while medical science and surgical techniques have never been so advanced, hundreds of people remain waiting in desperation on an ever-growing transplant list, as the number of card-carrying organ donors in Ireland declines.

Athlete, Kate O’Neill joined Irish track legend and race director, Eamonn Coghlan recently to launch the 2011 Kleinwort Benson Investors St Patrick’s 5k Festival Road Race which takes place in Dublin on Sunday, March 20.

A city based organisation which provides meals for older people in their homes has been shortlisted for a major national award.

Ireland’s largest and longest motorcycle event, the AXA/AON Annual Across Ireland race, will take place this August for the 11th consecutive year, with stop-offs in Athlone and Mullingar for local bikers to join the crew.

Young people from Athlone have been selected as four of 50 shortlisted projects in ECO-UNESCO’s Young Environmentalist Awards 2010.