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Celebrate your Junior Certificate results in style without drink or drugs is the straight talking message to students and parents from a new group working to stop the harm and danger caused by alcohol to young people in Mayo every year.

According to the latest nationwide survey by Irish Business Against Litter Castlebar came fourth out of 42 towns for being cleaner than European norms. Ballina also fared well, coming in ninth.

Mercy Secondary School, Meánscoil Mhuire, Newtownsmith, will mark the 75th anniversary of its founding next September with a two-day celebration.

A Mayo school is among 20 teams of students representing 19 secondary schools from 12 counties who have won places in the national finals of the 2012 NDC Milk It! advertising awards.

Seven Westmeath students have won top prizes in this year’s 58th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.

Details of the 2012/2013 Corrib Natural Gas Third-Level Scholarship scheme were announced this week in Belmullet, with Shell E&P Ireland Limited’s managing director Michael Crothers describing it as “the finest scholarship programme run by Shell anywhere”.

More than 60 young innovators from around the country will descend on Croke Park for the national final of Agri Aware’s Green Dragon Secondary Schools Innovation Challenge on Wednesday next, March 28. An open event, the public will have the fantastic opportunity to view a range of innovative ideas for new products and services in the agriculture, food, environment, and health and safety industries.

Seventeen teams of Mayo secondary students have been selected to go forward to the Western regional final of the ERP Junk Kouture Recycled Fashion Competition at the Hudson Bay Hotel, Athlone, on March 25. The competition invites budding fashion designers to rework trash and used materials into remarkable high-end couture fashion, promoting sustainability, especially the recycling of electrical waste. The competition received phenomenal interest from the west, with the top 70 creations selected to go through to the regional final.

An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny will visit St Mary's Secondary School, Ballina, on Monday next (February 27) to present the Sean Lemass Award for Enterprise, as part of the Transition Year Mini Company Get Up and Go National Final.

Twenty five secondary schools in Mayo are to get high speed (100Mbps) broadband over the next few years as part of a national programme being rolled out in all secondary schools. Welcoming the announcement, Minister for State at the Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport, Michael Ring detailed the Mayo schools as follows: