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This year Westlife are helping the ISPCC’s Childline service to launch it’s “Who’s Calling” awareness initiative, the aim of which is to highlight the difficulties with which Ireland’s children are contacting the society. Young people are able to contact the service for a wide range of reasons; 63 per cent of calls from children were about their personal life. This can cover a lot of topics such as school, bereavement, and mental health issues. Childline is accessible to all children and young people throughout Mayo and Ireland. The ISPCC’s staff call to various schools throughout the county making as many as possible aware of the service, and indeed the various means of accessing it.

AIT is among six colleges that between them will save €1.5 million on their electricity bill after jointly tendering for a single energy supplier under cost-cutting plans devised by the Minister for Education and Science, Batt O'Keeffe.

On Monday last the Kilkenny Strategic GAA Board held their Strategic Vision and Action plan for 2010 - 2015 in Hotel Kilkenny.

The deputy principal of a city secondary school has been invited to attend a prestigious world summit on innovation in education in San Francisco later this month.

Five of the top business lobby groups in Galway have come out in support of the city’s public transport feasibility study and Gluas, the proposed light rail system.

Job loss fears will continue for Hewlett Packard workers in Galway, and across Ireland, after the company confirmed that it is too early to know if the 24,600 job losses expected worldwide will affect the country’s four Irish branches.

More than 80 national and international employers have signed up for the GMIT recruitment and careers fair 2008, which will take place in the GMIT Dublin Road campus on Thursday October 30.

The countdown has begun to the west of Ireland tech-ie Oscars — the ITAG awards— which are being held tomorrow night (Friday) at the Hotel Meyrick.

Comharchumann Forbartha Áitiúil Acla has been shortlisted for the Gradaim Pobail na Gaeltachta awards which will take place in Galway on November 30.

Understanding the current difficult climate for business, Galway Chamber this year decided to reduce its membership subscriptions by five per cent and it has been to the fore in lobbying for all matters of interest to its members.