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“We’re burning down our children’s home”, Chair of the Elders and former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, told delegates to the inaugural Mary Robinson Climate Conference, themed “Communities Creating Change”, which took place in Ballina last week, adding: "but young people should not despair, but instead should be 'prisoners of hope'.

Seanad Eireann is celebrating its 100th anniversary and in that hundred years some of the greatest and most noted people took their place in the Higher House of the Irish Parliament.

Ballina will see the revival of their traditional Heritage Day which will take place on Wednesday, July 13, following a two year gap due to Covid-19.

Fianna Fáil TD for Mayo, Dara Calleary, has welcomed the appointment of former President Mary Robinson as a member of a High Level Reflection Group at the Council of Europe.

Award-winning writer, Elizabeth Reapy, has been named as judge of this year’s Wild Atlantic Words literary festival short story competition.

Poetry Ireland with the Global Brain Health Institute (Trinity College Dublin) and Creative Brain Week is inviting older people from Athlone and County Westmeath to write a line of poetry for a Poemathon with Older People.

The archive of Conradh na Gaeilge, Ireland’s oldest Irish language organisation, has been launched by NUI Galway. The archive, which extends to 600,000 pages of documents, books, photos, and ephemera collected throughout the organisation’s nearly 130-year history, has been fully catalogued and is now available to researchers.

Local Fine Gael Senator, Aisling Dolan, has welcomed the recent launch of the Seanad 100 programme.

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After nearly two years inaction, women's rugby is returning, and Connacht senior women's XV will open their Vodafone Interprovincial Championship at the Sportsground on Saturday (2.45pm).