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Regular library users will have noticed many changes in their Mayo library branches over the past few years – from the scrapping of membership charges and fines to the addition of 3D printers and musical instruments – and the staff at Mayo County Library would like to let everyone know of another upcoming improvement to its service offering.

Nigel and Magaly Murray of Gran Gran’s Foods are producing their own award-winning, high quality, foods while supporting Irish artisan producers from their recently opened pantry shop in the Burren lowlands, along the Wild Atlantic Way, beside Keane's Garden Centre and the post office in Kilcolgan, County Galway.

It is somewhat ironic that the building on the Green in Castlebar where the Land League was founded should later bear a name denoting Empire - The Imperial. I sometimes sit on a bench on the Green or the Mall that traverses it and mentally step through the historical significance of what is before me.

When browsing in a garden centre or on a nursery website, have you ever seen a little cup or trophy symbol attached to a plant and wondered what it meant? It’s the AGM or Award of Garden Merit, given by the Royal Horticultural Society, the world’s leading authority on all things horticultural, to plants that provide outstanding performance.

Libraries across Mayo have started to reopen and they are delighted to welcome readers back through their doors.

Both Athlone and Moate libraries have introduced a new ‘Call and Collect’ service in line with the Government’s roadmap to reopen the country. Library buildings will remain closed to public access during this initial phase.

Government funding of almost €30,000 has been approved for facilities in local public libraries for the benefit of individuals with sensory impairments, special educational needs, other learning differences, and those on the autism spectrum.

Galway-based social start-up Hashtag Media are set for an LA launch, with the help of Enterprise Ireland.

On average 65 per cent of visitors to a website find the website via search engine results. Google is the dominant search engine accounting for 85 per cent of Irish search engine usage. Search engine optimisation is a practice of improving internal and external aspects of a website in order to increase the traffic the site receives from search engines’ natural results. Search engines have algorithms that assign importance to different elements of the website namely domain name, website structure, meta tags, and link building.