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Erasmus+ is an EU programme that can help students to travel to experience work, study, or training in another country. Galway Community College of Further Education (GCC) introduced Erasmus mobilities for students and staff in 2016, giving further education students an opportunity to complete their work experience, a mandatory element of their course, in European countries.

An inspiring Galway grandmother who was recently widowed and who received a kidney transplant 22 years ago could be forgiven for putting up her feet and taking it easy, but that’s not the ethos of driven Teresa Smyth from Dunmore.

The Poor Clares monastery on Nuns’ Island was the location this week for the launch of a comprehensive book on the history of women in religious orders.

Students of Calasanctius college are ‘Joyful Joyful’ with the return of the school musical after a three year break due to the pandemic, with the countdown to curtain call of ‘Sister Act,’ a musical we are familiar with which stars Whoopi Goldberg.

The Patrician Brothers, at the invitation of the last Catholic Warden of Galway, arrived in Galway in 1826 and a month later they opened St Patrick’s Monastery and School on Market Street. They initially had 200 pupils but this figure rapidly grew so that during the Famine, there were more than 1,000 boys being educated, fed, and many of them clothed there every day. The school was a major success but there were no educational facilities for older boys in the ‘lower orders’ in Galway so Bishop McEvilly invited the Patrician Brothers to set up a secondary school.

At Calasanctius College, Oranmore, the process of deciding upon a grounded and well-researched Third Level decision, is honed throughout the lifespan of a student’s time. It involves all members of the whole school community, particularly our school guidance counsellors Ms Grace Denny, Ms Donna Curran, Mr Niall Loftus and Ms Deirdre Tobin along with each subject-teacher.

Next week, the Castlebar conference of the Society of St Vincent de Paul (SVP) will be posting blue envelopes to houses in the Castlebar area as part of the SVP Annual Appeal. Demand for help increased by more than 20 per cent throughout the year, and with their annual church gate collection cancelled for a second year due to the pandemic, local SVP volunteers are asking for the support of the community to continue their work of assisting people in need.

Calasanctius College in Oranmore has been successful in its application to the Department of Education for additional accommodation.

“St. Vincent de Paul has had an enormous impact on my life. The effect SVP has had on my ability to go to University cannot be overstated. Without the help of SVP over the last few years, I would not have been able to complete my education,” said a local woman this week.

FIRST BROADCAST on RTÉ in June 1979, Bosco was an Irish children's television phenomenon and a shared cultural experience for a generation, and the legend continues - these days on stage.