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Thanks to everyone who entered this year’s Christmas Art Competition. This year’s theme was Coming Home for Christmas.

Three schools in Westmeath are to receive funding for upgrades this summer, the Minister for Education and Skills, Deputy Ruairí Quinn, has announced this week.

A new campaign has been launched to raise funds for Kilkenny’s first autism centre at St Canice’s co-ed national school, which will cost a total of €500,000.

The Keep on Track Project is a unique collaborative, cross curricular project connecting 16 schools from Galway to Ballymun in Dublin along the Inter City Rail Line, culminating in a launch day which will be held in the Radisson Hotel in Galway tomorrow, in which schools will present their project findings.

A Kilkenny teacher is off to Africa as part of a group of volunteers providing IT training during July and August.

NovaScotia – the rockin’ new Cajun house-band at Hole in the Wall will be your sizzling entertainment this weekend for Rhythm and Roots 2011!

NovaScotia – the rockin’ new Cajun house-band at Hole in the Wall will be your sizzling entertainment this weekend for Rhythm and Roots 2011!

Sarah Mullaney from St Joseph’s NS, Swinford was named the Best Junior Painter in Ireland at the Sightsavers Ireland Junior Painter of the Year Awards. Six-year-old Sarah’s winning painting, ‘Seeing My Family’, was inspired by the competition theme ‘Seeing This Makes Me Smile’ and was chosen from over 5,000 entries from primary school children around Ireland. Sarah’s painting is now part of an exhibition at Airfield, Dundrum, Co Dublin alongside 14 shortlisted paintings and work from renowned artist Helen Steele until March 16.

With a finalist in the Brainfood.ie fantasy writing competition from Mayo, Ireland may well have found its own Stephanie Meyer, JK Rowling, or JRR Tolkien. Ten-year-old Sarah Bourke from St Peter’s NS in Snugboro, Castlebar, has made it to the final 16 – a very impressive achievement when one considers that nearly 5,000 pupils nationwide entered the competition.

Some spring growth seems to be slowly returning to Westmeath business, as evidenced from the planning lists at Westmeath County Council, with a new tyre service facility in Delvin and a new convenience store and deli in Kilbeggan the notable beneficiaries of the official green light.