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With an infant mortality rate of almost 20 per cent, a life expectancy of just 58 years, and an HIV/AIDS epidemic that kills 50,000 people a year and has orphaned as many as 700,000 children, the stark facts about life in Kenya can be depressing.

On Sunday evening the Taoiseach Enda Kenny and his wife Fionnuala visited Cathal and Mary Garvey's farm in county Mayo and welcomed Premier Li of China and his wife Professor Chang to Ireland.

Four SuperValu stores in Westmeath were awarded the highest accolade of food quality, The Supreme National Hygiene and Food Safety Award, at the recent 2015 SuperValu Quality Awards in Killarney. The awards are accredited by the Excellence Ireland Quality Association (EIQA) and identify retailers throughout the country who have gone above and beyond in maintaining the highest quality standards for more than a three year period.

Are you a craft worker interested in selling your produce in the busy run-up to Christmas? If so, apply now for the eighth Food and Design Winter Fair which will take place in Belvedere House and Gardens on November 22 and 23.

Growing Galway Food is inviting small food producers as well as retail and hospitality food buyers to participate in an online survey of food production in Galway as part of its aims to develop a county wide strategy for food in Galway, to contribute to the future development of the sector by fostering cooperation and cohesion amongst food producers and to build relationships between food producers and buyers in the retail, catering and hospitality sectors.

Are you a craft worker interested in selling your produce in the busy run-up to Christmas? If so, apply now for the seventh Food and Design Winter Fair which will take place in Belvedere House and Gardens, Mullingar on November 23 and 24.

Westport entrepreneurship expert and media commentator Olwen Dawe was one of four guest speakers at a Young Fine Gael seminar entitled Job Creation Creates Ireland’s Future at the Garret FitzGerald Summer School in Kilkenny last weekend.

Bishops in the west of Ireland have been re-assured that the Council for the West will continue to lobby for employment creation throughout the region.

A fundraising coffee morning in aid of Self Help Africa’s work in Kenya will take place on Friday April 26 in the Westside Resource Centre, Westside, from 10am to 12 noon.

The Bakery has been open for business for two years and the success story continues. Started during the recession with just seven employees, they now have over 20 staff, not to mention the indirect jobs created or maintained by buying their ingredients from local businesses.