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The economic downturn coupled with recent charity controversies has made the task of raising €1 million a year “very challenging” for a local cancer charity which depends significantly on public donations.

Brush up on your sports trivia for a table quiz in Flynn’s Bar, Castlebar, on Thursday next (July 17).

Brush up on your sports trivia for a table quiz in Flynn’s Bar, Castlebar, on Thursday next (July 17).

Cancer Care West’s recent fundraiser “Road to Inis Aoibhinn” has been singled out for an award.

The Mayo Cancer Support Association, Castlebar, has been elected to the National Networking Committee of the Irish Cancer Society’s Cancer Support Affiliation Programme for the West/Northwest region. The committee, which held its inaugural meeting in the Irish Cancer Society’s offices in Dublin on December 6, will guide the direction of the society’s affiliation programme which sees it support 48 community based cancer support services across the country.

People are being invited to celebrate the wild west later this month and help raise vital funds for a local cancer charity.

The Irish Cancer Society, along with local cancer survivor Jennifer Hunt from Castlebar, would like to invite everyone to the official launch of Relay for Life Castlebar 2012, on Thursday, March 29 at 8pm in the TF Royal Hotel, Castlebar.

A charity mock wedding which takes place this St Valentine’s weekend aims to raise vital funds for a local cancer organisation.

The Railyard senior ladies team made the trip to Blessington at the weekend to take part in the annual Mick Reid seven-a-side competition which was hosted by Blessington ladies football club with the proceeds going to local cancer fundraising.

Nobel Prize winner, Seamus Heaney will give one of the first public readings of his new collection entitled Human Chain at the Bailey Allen Hall at NUI Galway on Tuesday September 7 at 8pm. The proceeds will go to Cancer Care West, the local cancer charity.