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Last month, 19 Irish volunteers participated in the Great Ethiopian Run (GER) in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia on behalf of Vita, an Irish NGO working in East Africa including three Mayo men which raised over €50,000.

Fifty years of Kenyan independence from British colonial rule will be marked with a new exhibition to be opened in the Galway Education Centre next week.

Calor, Ireland’s leading supplier of rural energy solutions, has this week announced the shortlist of nominees for the Community Champion 2013. The all-island initiative is now entering its second year, after an unprecedented response in 2012. Following several weeks of intense nominating, they have received entries from every corner of Mayo. Tom Jennings has been shortlisted as the Mayo nominee for the Community Champion initiative.

Budget 2014 is a further boost for tourism with the retention of the nine per cent VAT rate, the travel tax cut to €0, and €8 million provided for the Wild Atlantic Way tourism route, according to the Minister for Tourism and Sport Michael Ring.

Ballycastle and District Voluntary Housing Association scooped a major award to honour their governing board at an awards ceremony held at the ICSH National Social Housing Conference in Wexford last week.

The majestic holy mountain of Croagh Patrick has been selected as one of only a handful Irish destinations which have been included in the just-published Lonely Planet's 1000 Ultimate Adventures.

It is not every day that an ion of world sport pops in to visit your class, but that was the case for several Galway schools last week as Olympic champion and world record holder David Rudisha became integrated into the Galway scene.

For the first time in almost a decade; White Tiger Martial Arts will enter a team in the Flanders Cup in Beveren-Waas, Belgium. This event has grown into one of the top points fighting tournaments in Europe in recent years. Training under the guidance of point fighting instructor, Damien Gormley, team mates Alan Lyons, Emma Flannery, Gearoid Cramp, Rory Dravins and Davitt Neary have been preparing for this event for the last three months, and as departure time draws near, the excitement is building. For a group of young people aged between 10 and 15, it is a rewarding opportunity to travel to Belgium and represent their country at a very prestigious event in their chosen sport.

Kenya's David Rudisha, the current Olympic 800m champion and world record holder, and Brother Colm O'Connell, coach to 25 world champions and five Olympic champions, will participate in various activities in the city from September 11 to 16.

The third annual US/Ireland Legal Symposium of the Brehon Law Society was officially launched last week by the Western Development Commission and Mayo County Council on behalf of the Brehon Law Society of Philadelphia in the presence of Mary Robinson, former president of Ireland, former UN high commissioner for human rights, and current UN Special Envoy for the Great Lakes region of Africa.