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This year, the David Manley Emerging Entrepreneur Awards is offering €100,000 as well as mentoring for all nine short-listed entrants and Alfie Kane, chairman of the panel of judges, is calling on Mayo entrepreneurs in the business, arts, or social areas to enter the competition.

Discover Science and Engineering has announced that 22 Mayo primary schools will receive an Award of Science Excellence this year as part of the Discover Primary Science programme. The awards programme, which is organised by Discover Science & Engineering, the Government’s national science promotion programme, acknowledges the efforts of primary school children and teachers who have demonstrated an increased knowledge of science and its many applications.

THE ACCLAIMED poet Kevin Higgins will teach creative writing classes in the Westside Library in September and October.

On behalf of pharmacists all around the country, the Irish Pharmacy Union has expressed its thanks to patients for their patience, forbearance and support during the recent dispute.

A SERIES of new writing courses will take place this autumn facilitated by poet and short stroy writer Susan Millar DuMars and poet Kevin Higgins.

THE WRITER, poet, and critic Fred Johnston will hold creative writing classes in NUI, Galway, starting on Thursday October 1.

Do you know how the universe was born? Did you know that people are made of almost 50 per cent comet juice? Did you know that the zinc we need to live was created by an exploding star? The Astronomy Ireland evening classes will answer these questions and much more.

GALWAY BASED writer Celeste Augé, who was shortlisted for a Hennessy Literary Award in 2009, will host creative writing classes in the Galway Arts Centre.

Charles Darwin made an immense contribution to science and to our understanding of ourselves as human beings when he put forward his theory of evolution exactly 150 years ago.

Mayo students took home two highly commended awards at the BT Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition in the RDS Dublin.