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The annual Lollipops festival gets underway this month at Roscommon Arts Centre and this year’s programme boasts something for everyone aged 12 and under!

Bord Bia, through its Talent Academy, is now accepting applications for its 2023 postgraduate programme with up to 20 fully-funded places on offer. The programme includes a fully funded masters at UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, a bursary, and a guaranteed work placement through the agency’s domestic and global network.

Self-taught designer and owner of her brand, Emerald and Wax Designs, Virtue Shine is a powerhouse woman settled in Barna, County Galway. Inspired by her Ghanian upbringing and love for Japanese architecture, Virtue creates unique and vibrant designs, which she describes as “wearable art”. Chatting to Virtue, I learned about the inspirations behind her brand, as well as the struggles that still face women in Ireland’s business field.

People Before Profit representative for Galway, Adrian Curran, has condemned what he has termed the “criminal failure by the State to ensure that the rights of undocumented workers in the fishing industry are upheld.

Migration — how food travels and how this journey affects people's perception of food — is the main theme for this year's Food on the Edge, taking place on October 21 and 22.

GALWAY GIG-goers are in for a real treat next week when the London African Gospel Choir brings its acclaimed staging of Paul Simon’s classic album Graceland to Leisureland, Salthill.

NUI Galway’s third annual Soapbox Science Galway is set to return to city streets this weekend when twelve female scientists will take to their soap boxes and talk about their ground breaking research in the areas of science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine. The event will take place from 12pm-3pm at the Spanish Arch, Galway on Saturday, 29 June and is free and open to the public.

This Westport Civic Trust lecture will take place onTuesday, April 23 at 8pm at the Westport Coast Hotel and will be given by Noeline Haylett, who is a remarkable woman and humanitarian.

A primary school teacher from Luimnagh, Corrandulla was selected as the 2018 Galway Rose at the Clayton Hotel, Ballybrit last weekend.

A documentary, produced in Mayo, will be broadcast on Castlebar Radio station CRCfm on Monday evening, January 29.