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With the deadline for entry into the Great Ethiopian Run/Walk 2014 fast approaching, Ronan Scully of Gorta-Self Help Africa is calling on Galway people to sign up for this epic fundraising adventure.

Last month, 19 Irish volunteers participated in the Great Ethiopian Run (GER) in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia on behalf of Vita, an Irish NGO working in East Africa including three Mayo men which raised over €50,000.

Intrepid Claremorris native Ann Melia will be hosting a collection of stunning portraits, paintings and photographs as she kicks off her fundraising efforts for her participation in the Great Ethiopian Run in November in aid of children’s development charity Plan Ireland.

A Mullingar aid worker has lined up with Ireland rugby legend Malcolm O’Kelly to urge runners, joggers, and walkers in Westmeath to sign up for the challenge of a lifetime -The Great Ethiopian Run in November

For those of us old enough, the images from Africa that haunted our television screens for a large part of 2011 will have taken us back more than a quarter of a century.

Galway’s ‘Operation Transformation’ contestant Ronan Scully and Galway publican Fergus McGinn along with six other runners from Galway and another 10 from around the country are to take part in the Great Ethiopian Run in Addis Ababa on Sunday November 27 to raise funds for the Irish charity Self Help Africa for their work in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.

Operation Transformation star and renowned fundraiser Ronan Scully is undertaking the Great Ethiopian Run this November, and is looking for volunteers to join him. Scully has already signed up close to a dozen participants to run with him on the annual event, a 10km walking and running challenge through the heart of Addis Ababa on November 27.

Ballina lady Deirdre Ruane is organising a number of trips to Ethiopia in conjunction with third world development agency VITA.

Irish development agency Vita is calling on all sectors of Irish society to send representatives to participate in the Great Ethiopian Run this November in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The run is a 10km high-altitude event and is open to runners, joggers, and walkers, men and women. The event is also open to individual participants.

MÁIRTÍN O’CONNOR, Garry O’Brian, and Seamie O’Dowd will celebrate their birthdays with a charity gig in Campbell’s Tavern, Cloughanover, this Sunday at 8pm.