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Mayo have two representatives in Anthony Tohill’s preliminary squad announced this week with Ballinrobe’s Donal Vaughan being rewarded for his impressive summer in the green and red with a selection. Joining him in the 31 man preliminary squad is Australian based Pearse Hanley who plays Australian Rules football for the Brisbane Lions. Hanley (22) played just one season for the Mayo senior football team in 2007 before he departed for the Lions. Hanley previously played for the Irish u17 International Rules team where he won the Ron Barassi medal for the best player at the grade. He has played 34 times for the Lions since making his debut in 2008.

A County Galway man was recently awarded a biomedical patent on a stroke prevention medical device.

Get Jiggy With It is a new Irish dance fitness class aimed exclusively at adults. Irish dancing is a really enjoyable way to increase fitness, improve flexibility and lose weight. Get Jiggy With It aims to combine a high energy fitness experience with the best of what Irish dance has to offer.

Midlands Simon is delighted to announce that the current Westmeath Rose, Teresa Donohoe has become a volunteer and will be supporting their work in a number of ways.

A revolutionary new electronic swimming invention by a Mayo student has been announced as the winner of the Irish James Dyson award.

Swinford has been chosen as the focus of an architectural study as part of a pilot study under the Government Policy on Architecture.

This year’s Leaving Cert results show that a ‘second-chance’ system should be introduced for maths, to save students who fail the subject from missing out on college, according to local Fine Gael TD, John Paul Phelan.

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.

THIS SATURDAY, The Black Box hosts a major new Irish dance show, Noctú, choreographed and directed by Breándan de Gallaí, the dancer who replaced Michael Flatley as the lead in Riverdance.

NOCTÚ, a new dance show, which promises to push the boundaries of the Irish dance tradition, is coming to The Black Box Theatre on Saturday April 30 at 8pm.