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Michael Ring TD, the Minister for Rural and Community Development, has confirmed that pupils in 13 DEIS schools in Mayo are set to benefit from free books thanks to additional government funding of €1 million to reduce the cost of books in DEIS schools.

In April 1913, the Daily Mail offered £10,000 (about €500,000 today)

A census pilot survey being undertaken in County Galway is asking people if they would like a time capsule — in the form of a space to include a message for future generations — included in the 2021 Census form.

A classroom behaviour game which is being tested in Westmeath primary schools, including St Paul’s NS in Athlone, has reported a 58 per cent reduction in children’s off-task behaviours.

There is a special kind of resilience in anyone who plays football with Kiltane, perched on the edge of the Atlantic, battling against much more densely populated areas, yet holding their own all the time, breeds that into you. Mayo similarly have shown a special kind of resilience down through the years, through dark days they have raged, and savoured the good ones, with the greatest one still to come to fruition. It should be no surprise then that when Stephen Rochford went looking to complement his backroom team he should look to a Kiltane stalwart he knows and trusts for over two decades to join him on the sideline, and Sean Carey answered that call.

In June 1858 Galway town was in a fever of excitement. Its vision for a magnificent transatlantic port off Furbo, reaching deep into in Galway Bay, where passangers from Britain, and throughout the island of Ireland, would be brought to their emigration ship in the comfort of a train, could now be scuppered by the apparent carelessness of the two local pilots.

Water-lovers and fans of the great outdoors are spoilt in Mayo with plenty of waterways and lakes to choose from for a wide range of leisure activities.

LOCAL ACTORS are sought to take part in a pilot programme for a prospective TV series, entitled Issues.

On the surface, X Files: I Want to Believe should appeal to both die-hard fans and those with only a passing interest in the sci-fi TV series. The satisfyingly creepy plot stands alone without previous knowledge of X Files lore. However, it gradually emerges that I Want to Believe is primarily designed for those devoted fans left hanging at the end of the TV series in 2002. Their patience has finally been rewarded.