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Medtronic workers, with two offices in Galway, have volunteered 2,220 hours to charities across Ireland.

Land Rover is partnering with the Irish Red Cross for three years, helping to bring safe drinking water to regions of Niger affected by drought and failed harvests.

The booking deadline for Mayo’s Sunrise Summit Challenge is fast approaching. All individuals, families and teams looking to join the annual Irish Red Cross charity event are asked to sign up by Tuesday, March 31.

Witness the sunrise from Mayo’s highest peaks by trekking Mayo’s Mweelrea on behalf of the Irish Red Cross. The annual Irish Red Cross Sunrise Summit Challenge takes place on Sunday April 12, raising funds on behalf of vulnerable communities in Ireland and overseas.

An inspirational Foxford woman who has spent 19 years providing full-time care to her husband has called for more recognition and support of the work of Ireland’s many tens of thousands of carers.

An Irish Red Cross cyle fundraiser, with a 25 km and a 55 km option, takes place in Ballaghaderreen on August 31.

Carers in Mayo give more than 161,000 hours unpaid care to the county’s sick, elderly and vulnerable each week. Of Mayo’s 6,558 carers, 40.5 per cent regularly work a minimum of one to 14 hours a week, whilst a further 50 per cent work between 15 and 43 hours a week.

The Irish Red Cross is appealing to Galway gardening enthusiasts to take part in Open Gardens 2014.

A German woman who was fostered by a Swinford family following the end of World War Two is looking to get back in touch with the family whom she lived with for three years, following the end of the war over 60 years ago.

A local Red Cross volunteer crew launched an emergency rescue on Lough Corrib early on Monday morning after a local couple were stranded on the lake overnight when their boat got into difficulty.