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Q: This is something which has been bothering me for some time. There are some areas of my work – I am in IT – where I do not have a great deal of experience. As you can appreciate, IT is a very broad area, and it is always likely that a candidate would have a deficiency in some areas. But my query is: how do you recommend I should deal with this shortcoming in my experience when it arises in interview?

Q: I have some job interviews of late, but without any joy. I think my mistake is that I talk too much, often without really thinking about what I’m saying. It’s like as if I feel the most important thing is not to be seen to lose my train of thought. I’m actually quite a reserved person usually. Any pointers? (Larry, email)

The deadline for nominations for the Google Silver Surfer Awards with Age Action is fast approaching. The public has until September 9 to nominate a Mayo older person who has embraced technology, or somebody who has empowered him/her to do so.

Gortskehy National School is the first primary school in Ireland to have the pupils' video work featured on An Lar TV, a community TV channel for the Irish Diaspora. anlar.tv has an audience of between 2,500 and 3,000 people a day in some 50 countries. Gortskehy school joins a list of other educators providing content for the channel such as the University of Limerick, the Royal College of Science at UCD, and the Irish School of Animation in Dublin.

St Brendan's NS Newmarket has been involved in a Comenius project with Hartshead School from Yorkshire in England and Akra school from Norway since 2009.

DANNY DOWLING, the New Zealand born, Galway based, comic will bring his Mad Hatters Tea Party show to the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday June 22 at 8.30pm.

An exhibition entitled Hidden Histories of Women in Computing has gone on display at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) in NUI Galway. The exhibition highlights how, in spite of many obstacles, women have over the centuries made significant contributions to advances in communications and computer technologies.

An exciting introductory and digital media friendly course on how to use your computer and the internet will be run at GMIT this Easter. This new and improved computers for beginners course will start on Thursday April 14 at 7pm. The lecturer and course director is Dr Robert J Loughnane, who has specially prepared this course for people who have little or no knowledge of digital media or the internet.

Mayo native Lisa Ruane and her Roscommon boyfriend Fintan Coen enjoyed a cup of tea on Monday in the comfort of Lisa’s home in Belcarra. As they looked back over the events of the previous week - their terrifying ordeal trying to flee from war torn Libya - the reality of what they had been through was sinking in.

THE WILD MAN of the Irish language, broadcasting, and TV travel documentaries Hector Ó hEochagáin, headlines the Mad Hatters Christmas Party in the Róisín Dubh next week.