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A novel Guinness record attempt will be made in Galway this summer in aid of five Galway charities.

A gala charity concert entitled Voices of Hope takes place next week to raise funds for young people in Galway and communities in Africa.

The Plant and AgriBiosciences Research Centre (PABC) at the NUI Galway announced recently that it is a Grand Challenges Explorations winner, an initiative funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

The Christmas party season has only just begun, and already we’re planning ways and means to get in shape next year.

Galway’s ‘Operation Transformation’ contestant Ronan Scully and Galway publican Fergus McGinn along with six other runners from Galway and another 10 from around the country are to take part in the Great Ethiopian Run in Addis Ababa on Sunday November 27 to raise funds for the Irish charity Self Help Africa for their work in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa.

Operation Transformation star and renowned fundraiser Ronan Scully is undertaking the Great Ethiopian Run this November, and is looking for volunteers to join him. Scully has already signed up close to a dozen participants to run with him on the annual event, a 10km walking and running challenge through the heart of Addis Ababa on November 27.

SINGER, SONGWRITER, spoken-word artist, publisher, radio DJ, actor, globetrotter, TV documentarist and social campaigner; not for nothing has Henry Rollins being described as a ‘post-punk renaissance man’.

A team of researchers in Galway will play a pivotal role in the development of technology which will help prevent the transmission of HIV from pregnant mothers in Africa to their children.

THE EXPERIENCE and perilous journeys of immigrants will be explored in three video installations which will be shown in Galway as part of the TULCA Festival of Visual Art.

Are you looking for ways to blow away the cobwebs and work off the Christmas Day excesses?