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This year’s annual Midlands Science Festival runs across the region from November 13 to 20.

Creatives working in the gaming and animation industries will share stories of their work in the first of a series of afternoon seminars at GMIT’s Centre for Creative Arts and Media (CCAM), which begins tomorrow (Friday).

Tomorrow sees the official launch of this year’s TULCA Festival of Visual Arts at its gallery in Fairgreen Road. TULCA 2016, which runs to Sunday November 20, will be the most ambitious festival to date with a programme of exhibitions, events, performances, discussions, film screenings and provocations.

Galway man and successful entrepreneur John McGuire, CEO and Founder of Active Mind Technology, creator of a real-life digital sports platform spoke at the recently-held SPAR EUROSPAR Convention at The Europe Hotel and Resort in Killarney.

Ireland’s positon as one of the top medtech clusters in the world will be bolstered today (Monday) with the official launch of CÚRAM, the Centre for Research in Medical Devices. CÚRAM is a Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre based at NUI Galway, which is a unique symbiotic relationship of academia and industry partners that pushes the scientific frontiers in medical devices.

Clare Rooney has been involved in fitness, health, and movement education for almost 30 years now. She began lifting weights in 1987 under the tutelage of her exercise physiology professor at the University of Limerick. With gold medals in Olympic lifting and springboard diving at national level, her experience as a high level athlete informs her approach to training her clients.

The mothers of two young adults affected by a rare genetic disorder met the Minister for Health Simon Harris recently at the launch of Ireland’s first European Exchange Summer camp for young people with Williams Syndrome.

Michaela Deane, a University of Limerick student from Belmullet, was a runner up of the Headline Award for Student Journalism 2016. Her article ‘Mental health not just confined to anxiety and depression’, which was published online by The Irish Times, was one of five shortlisted entries from journalism students across the country. The competition was judged by the education editor of The Irish Times, Carl O’Brien.

This morning, a Thursday morning, should have been like any other for the Gubbins family. They should be up and about their duties and doing the things that all Irish families do on a Thursday. Thoughts of the week past, the days to come, thoughts of their three children. But today will be a day most unlike any other. It is a day that they will bury their young son Brian. A likeable, popular, student whose ambition was to work in the world of media. For that he seemed to have all the attributes.

An editorial from the Galway Advertiser dealing with the number of water deaths in Galway City has been named as a winner in a global contest to honour the best editorial writing in weekly newspapers. The Golden Quill and Golden Dozen award winners for 2016 were announced by the International Society of Weekly Newspaper Editors at a conference in Melbourne today (Sunday).