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Mandel's Art Shop, Main Street, Castlebar, has a great range of art and craft supplies, which are good quality and keenly priced. It stocks paints, paper, and brushes for all kinds of painting projects. It also stocks fabric paints and markers, glass, porcelain and craft paints, large bags of air-dry clay, craft papers and card, lolly sticks, and block printing supplies.

Richard Findlay, the former head of media firm Scottish Radio Holdings, has moved closer to buying five Irish local radio stations with a deal expected this week.

Instead of travelling the length and breadth of the country to view  livestock before making a purchasing decision, farmers in Westmeath can now view these livestock first online before deciding to travel, thanks to an innovative new website launched today called www.pedigreecattle.ie.

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.

Beverley Flynn is never far from the headlines and this week has been another tumultuous one in the Castlebar politician’s career.

ABOUT 20 years ago American country music singer Collin Raye signed a major deal with Epic Records and almost overnight became a big name on the Nashville scene.

Head of news at Midwest Radio Teresa O’Malley is the Irish winner in the radio section of the 2009 European Journalism Awards.

Its all systems go for Midwest Radio’s 20th birthday celebrations at the TF Royal Theatre on Tuesday night July 21 at 8pm.

The 2009 PPI awards, the radio industry’s most prestigious award ceremony, will take place in the Lyrath Estate Hotel, Kilkenny, today, Friday October 2. Journalists Paula Donnellan, Angelina Nugent, Teresa O’Malley, and Liamy McNally are the only local radio crew to have been shortlisted in the News Programme of the Year category.

This Saturday and Sunday all roads lead to the Ramada Hotel in Ballina as Midwest Radio hosts an exhibition with a difference. Expose West will feature up to 50 of the region’s most progressive companies which source and manufacture their own products locally. The idea of the exhibition is to give small and medium sized local businesses a platform to market their product to the general public in one arena, and large crowds are expected for the two-day event.