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Inver National School in north Mayo is to retain a teacher in the coming academic year despite fears that the teacher numbers were to be reduced to two from September.

It is better to have tried and failed than not to have tried at all. While the footballers of Garrycastle and Tubberclair will be disappointed this week to have fallen short at the final hurdle in Leinster, they can take solace in the fact that they did what very few club players ever get the chance to do - represent their club in a provincial final. In doing so they put Westmeath football back in the spotlight after an eminently forgettable year on the county scene.

AN ARTIST is ‘inspired’ by her guardian angle, a Kurdish youth plans to swim the English Channel to reach his girlfriend, dark goings on mar a town in Germany on the eve of WWI, and a Hungarian woman must confront her past if she is to have a future.

A married teacher in her forties who failed a roadside breath test and then failed to provide a breath sample at Ballina Garda Station was disqualified from driving for four years and convicted and fined €800 at Ballina District Court on Tuesday.

THIS YEAR is the bicentenary of Robert Schumann’s birth and Music For Galway is marking the occasion in style with Fantasies and Fairytales, a weekend of selected chamber works by Schumann, running over four concerts from January 22 to 24 at the Town Hall Theatre.

A former Galway based nun who has been working in Haiti for the past five years has spoken of the devastation caused by the recent earthquake which has affected an estimated three million people in this the poorest country in the western hemisphere.

Mayo All-Stars cheerleading camp is the first and only of its kind! As well as learning all the skills of a cheerleader such as dance, stunts, and cheering, additional activities will include trust exercises, voice projection exercises, and arts and craft activities such as making pom-poms and designing your own uniform.

When it comes to planning applications in Galway, whether it is for a new building, or the renovation of an old building, modernisation or improvement, there are two strands of thought that can affect the decision from the local authority. I may not have all the technical jargon, but I understand that one side of the argument insists that pretty well every building that is a few generations old should be preserved. Any additional building must use the same or similar materials so that the addition appears to be a seamless add on.

Koolkidz will give your child the opportunity to participate in a wide variety of activities each day over a week-long camp which will take place in Breaffy GAA Club at various dates over the summer from 9am to 3pm sharp (Castlebar Pool pick-up Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday).

Five years and a month after Declan Ganley chaired the Libertas Forum to discuss the European Constitution during Ireland’s presidency of the European Union, he walked off the political stage, as the sun began to set outside the count centre for the North West Constituency in Castlebar.