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GOAL is offering companies from all over Westmeath the opportunity to give their hard-working employees a much-needed lie-in and day of relaxation, while contributing to a worthy cause.

Leinster and Irish rugby star, Ian Madigan, along with Irish soccer international, Stephanie Roche, are calling on schools from all over Westmeath - and the rest of the country - to take part in a challenge that provides all school-goers, from junior infants right up to Leaving Certificate level, with the opportunity to compete against each other (and their teachers) in a race or a penalty shoot-out for charity.

Despite an absolute wipeout of the Fianna Fáil party on a national level, and Mayo only returning one Fianna Fáil TD to the 31st Dáil, there still exists a core Fianna Fáil vote in Mayo.

Transition Year students from across the city convened a meeting of TY students this week in a bid to encourage them to join a campaign to raise public awareness of the threat to the Children At Risk Programme at the Fr McGrath Centre.

The official opening of Ballyglass Community Childcare Centre will take place on Saturday November 6 at 12 noon.

Any plans to cut Child Benefit in the December budget are being strongly opposed by children’s rights groups and public representatives.

Organisers of Ireland’s oldest agricultural show were toasting another overwhelming success in south Kilkenny this week.

Seven Westmeath students were among the 161 winners from all over Ireland who travelled to Dublin recently to receive their prizes in this year’s 56th Texaco Children’s Art Competition.

Every time, I hear a story involving a defenceless child getting injured I feel I must write about it. I don’t know whether you feel it more tangibly when you have children or whether everyone is feeling the same, but I can’t get the story of little three year old Sefora, who was beaten to death by her mother for wetting the bed, out of my mind.

The Child and Family Research Centre at NUI Galway has launched research which acknowledges the work of youth cafés in providing a safe recreational space for teenagers and which aims to aid the development of the youth café model across the country.