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ECO-UNESCO, Ireland’s environmental education and youth organisation, is making a final call to young people across Ireland to take environmental issues into their own hands. Due to popular demand, the registration deadline for the ECO-UNESCO Young Environmentalist Awards 2013 been extended until Friday December 21. The programme recognises and rewards young people who create environmental action projects that directly affect and influence their local communities.

The HSE’s Mayo mental health recovery team is organising a family education course entitled Recover and the Family. The aim of the course is to give relatives, friends, and family members of people with mental health difficulties an opportunity to take time out to reflect and meet others in the same situation as themselves.

An innovative green energy jobs conference and open day, ‘Greener Homes and Business Generating Green Jobs,’will be held at the Oranmore Lodge Hotel on Friday May 28.

Sinn Féin Councillor Thérèse Ruane is calling for greater participation of women in decision making in society today. In particular, she is calling on women to use their talent, skill and energy to contribute to public life.

Green Party candidate for Westport Town Council Fergus McAllister said that announcements this week of over 400 green jobs in the west should be a wake-up call to Westport that it must get serious about targeting green collar jobs if it wants to realistically overcome the present crisis and be competitive into the future.

Most people are happy to go along to the doctor with a sore throat or a pain or flu symptoms — we know that much of the time an antibiotic or a stronger pain killer can help us to feel better.

A new retail security system uses the latest in communication technology to allow the Gardai and city retailers to work together to beat shoplifting and theft.