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The next meeting will take place on Wednesday April 18 at 8pm in Ballina Arts Centre.

At a recent event in the Pontoon Bridge Hotel, Councillor Michael Burke, Cathaoirleach, Mayo County Council, made presentations to nine community groups which participated in a local heritage and living landscape course, organised by Mayo County Council and North East Mayo Leader Partnership Company, and supported by the Heritage Council.

Kilkenny communities have taken the bull by the horns in a bid to prevent borrowing from money lenders and other risky organisations in their locality by becoming involved in saving in community banks.

A leading local trade union official says he is hopeful that the powerful campaign mounted by the public against the proposed health cuts may influence the HSE West when it wields its axe today (Thursday).

Galway Community Circus has announced a fundraising event to be held in The Bank of Ireland Theatre in NUIG.

Rural isolation, community apathy, and dwindling school numbers will come into focus this week on TG4’s popular weekly news show 7 Lá. Journalist and broadcaster Piaras Ó Raghallaigh reports from north Mayo where community groups are struggling to survive in the post Celtic Tiger era as remote communities face the reality of funding cuts, red tape, inadequate services and social exclusion.

It’s looking likely that Kilkenny will not be hosting a St Patrick’s Day parade this year and as I write this I know there are not going to be any cries of disappointment.

An invitation has been issued to Westmeath’s non-profit and voluntary community groups to share their news with the local community – free of charge! 

Ireland’s first National Bike Week – which commences on June 14 and runs until June 21, calls on the people of Westmeath to set their wheels in motion. The week should highlight cycling as a healthy and convivial travel mode and underpin the key message in the recently launched National Cycle Policy Framework, that cyclists matter.