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Eoin Everard

Achieving your fitness objectives requires consistency, but it can be difficult to keep motivated at times. It is time to spice up your workout when the monotony creeps in.

Galway’s own, Alannah Larkin, sets off this weekend to represent Ireland in the Miss Earth finals in the Philippines, facing off contestants from around the globe.

Q: Everything I read and watch about career progression tells me I need to know my strengths. I understand that this is true – but I’ve no idea how to go about it. Where does one start when it comes to articulating your own strengths. I started and ran a business for over 15 years. The sector changed in the last year and now I’ve got to close it down – it’s almost gone already – and start afresh in a job. Ergo, I need to write a CV and I probably need a new career direction. Any pointers you can give me would be appreciated. (IH, email).

Atlantic Technological University (ATU) Galway city is hosting an open day this Saturday, November 5, from 10am to 10pm, for secondary school students, parents, teachers and mature applicants, highlighting the range of courses on offer across the university and information about student life and study.

Parents often wonder how they can best support their child with maths and numeracy.

Ionbha, The Empathy Book of Ireland, is due to be launched in Charlie Byrnes on Friday November 11.

A sense of bafflement pervaded the October meeting of Castlebar MD on Wednesday afternoon last, in which several local councillors said they really had no clue what is going on in the town - and even a government TD didn’t know what was going on either.

The Irish work in the programme comes from Deirdre Gribbin. Deirdre has been described as "a charismatic and intriguing new voice in contemporary music." (The Independent). She is Artistic Director of Venus Blazing Music Theatre Trust working with young people with cognitive delays. She has written for film including My Kingdom for Sky Pictures starring Richard Harris. The evening features the magical and mysterious “Merrow Sang” from 2007, which vividly recounts a tale of merrow-maidens emerging from the sea during the burial of one the Cantillon family of Ballyheigue.

Athlone Castle Visitor Centre hosted ‘My Delicious Hat’, a unique free event created by Westmeath performance artist and storyteller, Paul Timoney, on Saturday afternoon last.