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Mayo Intercultural Action is organising an information night on Burma on Wednesday May 9 at 8.30pm in the Welcome Inn Hotel, Castlebar.

A host of beautiful women from across the country will take to the catwalk this Saturday at 8pm for the coveted title of Miss Mayo 2012 at Breaffy House Resort.

The Mayo branch of Down Syndrome Ireland is set to host a series of Ice Cream Fundays.

Iorras Le Chéile, Community Development Project and Mayo Ideas Lab will run an Enterprise and Employment Exhibition on May 1 in Belmullet Civic Centre from 4pm to 8pm.

In recent years, County Mayo has seen high levels of youth suicides and in response to this the Mayo Youth Mental Health Group was established in spring 2009 to explore the feasibility of developing a youth mental health support structure in Co Mayo. The purpose of this project is to bring valuable supports to young people and offer opportunities for the development and enhancement of existing supports in the County.

When Taoiseach Enda Kenny visited the US to mark St Patrick’s Day he brought a special gift with him from his native county for Vice President Joe Biden, who was presented with a facsimile copy of a precious artefact from Mayo County Council’s Jackie Clarke Collection.

Ireland’s newest and most innovative online TV channel, mayotv.ie was endorsed by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny this week in the USA during his official visit to America for the St Patrick’s Day celebrations. Speaking during his trip to Chicago, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny stated that mayotv.ie and now their new national online platform irishtv.ie has its finger on the pulse of new media at home and abroad. “Mayotv.ie and irishtv.ie has opened up an entirely new international TV market and I can see a huge demand for this service. It is a vital link for the Irish diaspora and I am delighted to launch their new website,” stated An Taoiseach in Chicago.

A number of Mayo restaurants won awards this week at the Connacht regional final for the Santa Rita Irish Restaurants Awards 2012, held in The House Hotel in Galway on Tuesday last.

The annual Mayo Pink Ribbon Cycle, led by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, will take place on Saturday May. This year, much to the delight of bike owners everywhere, participants will have a choice of not one but three cycle routes! While the traditional 100km route is very popular and is expected to draw the greatest interest, other options have now been added. For those who really want to cycle but are daunted by the challenge, the new 50km route should appeal, while for the whizz kids and the more seasoned cyclists among us 160km will be a fine test of stamina.

A fascinating new book documenting Mayo’s role in the fight for independence during the early 1900s will be launched by An Taoiseach Enda Kenny this evening, Friday March 9, at Castlebar Library at 8pm. The book, The Flame and the Candle - War in Mayo 1919 - 1924, by Dominic Price, dispenses with the myth that little or nothing happened in Mayo during Ireland’s fight for independence and instead highlights the fascinating story of the Mayo men and women who were active during the troubled period of the War of Independence and the Civil War – a story largely untold.