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What do London, Sydney, Copenhagen, Cape Town and now Galway have in common? Well, these are some of the worldwide locations that host a Parkrun event.

Towns across the Midlands are preparing for the annual Darkness Into Light early morning event to raise money for Pieta House.

The dawn walk which symbolises hope in facing depression and suicide, Darkness Into Light, has been launched for 2014 with two locations in Mayo announced.

A number of students from NUI Galway have travelled all around the world without any money as part of the largest national student charity event, Jailbreak 2014, to raise money for Amnesty International and St Vincent de Paul.

HE MAY call himself “Ireland’s slowest rising comedy star!” but Danny Dowling is all over this year’s Galway Comedy Festival both as a participant and an MC of what could be among the festival’s wildest and most outrageous nights.

By the time next week’s issue of the Mayo Advertiser hits the shelves, hopefully we'll be basking in the afterglow of a day to remember for many years ahead. Sunday's games have given the people of this great and proud county something to think about and concentrate on for the past few weeks. The All-Ireland has enabled us to forget about or worries for a few brief flickering weeks, as the hunt for tickets and the build-up of excitement about the games has taken hold and pushed our financial, social, and other concerns to a small corner of the mind. Not that they have gone away or been forgotten about at all, but it has given us something positive to concern ourselves with. It has also created a great sense of community spirit and kinship from the top of Bangor Erris to the bridge in Shrule as we have all rowed in behind James Horan and Enda Gilvarry and their two teams of heroes.

Premiership football team Newcastle United is the latest elite squad to recruit the services of ORRECO, a Sligo-based-company co-owned by a Galway scientist that provides a pioneering ‘bio-analytics’ service that helps athletes optimise performance and reduce the number of training days lost to illness and injury.

JOHN DALY, one of Ireland’s leading DJs, will be hitting the decks at Get Deeper in The Cellar Underground this Saturday at 11pm.

IT WAS the undoubted theatrical highlight of 2012 and it was named Best Production in The Irish Times Theatre Awards. Now DruidMurphy returns for a national tour commencing in Galway’s Town Hall Theatre.

O’Donnellan & Joyce placed 18 properties up for auction which were streamed live on the internet on Friday by local multimedia production company Solid Media in conjunction with the Galway Advertiser. The auction attracted more than 3,000 people who logged on from abroad as they watched enthralled by the live auction and the tremendous value on offer. According to auctioneer Colm O’Donnellan 18 properties were placed up for auction with 14 selling in the room and the remaining four under active negotiation, and the company is confident that all 18 will be sold, such is the tremendous interest in the auction.