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New space for Kinvara youths

Young people in South Galway and North Clare are set to have a new social outlet shortly, as it was announced this week that the old courthouse in Kinvara is to become home to the Kinvara Youth Project.

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Seamount College the answer to school places crisis?

A Kinvara school could be the answer to a shortage of second-level places across South Galway identified by the Commission on Schools Accommodation, according to a group of campaigners in the area.RESCUE, the umbrella group established to campaign for the retention of secondary education in Kinvara, believes that Seamount College is ideally positioned to offer a solution to South Galway’s secondary school accommodation shortage.

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Guaire Magazine is launched online

GUAIRE Magazine, the magazine that has celebrated the town of Gort and its environs for over 30 years since it was launched in 1978, is now available online.“This is a hugely exciting development for all who grew up in Gort and particularly for those who no longer live there and can now freely access all the issues since 1978 and enjoy the memories that the magazine evokes,” claims Guaire editor, Mary O’Shaughnessy.Last year, the committee decided to create the website and last week its work came to fruition with the launch of www.guaire.ie at a function in the Lady Gregory Hotel.Putting 30 year’s worth of history and anecdotes online is not a small task and has been Mary’s main focus since she took over as editor last year. However, luckily, she did have some help.“It took months to get it done as it was done on a voluntary basis and the most time-consuming element was scanning each page of each …

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Technology leap for local school

Over the coming weeks Gort Community School will become one of the most technologically advanced second-level schools in the country.The school was selected as one of 78 schools nationwide to take part in a pilot project run by the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources in June and while the school has received some of the equipment due to it under the programme, in the coming weeks it will be further upgraded. Under the project, 100 Mbps of broadband will be delivered to the school and a wireless Local Area Network installed, meaning there will be access to the Internet in any location in the school and pupils can learn and collaborate online simultaneously.Under the scheme, the school was allocated funding for 31 laptops and 25 digital projectors, an investment of approximately €50,000. The investment means that soon almost every classroom in Gort Community School will be equipped with a fixed digital projector and the school will also have …

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Local causes to benefit from Mardi Gras

A group of Kinvara musicians will bring a taste of the Americas to the South Galway village on St Valentine’s weekend.Kinvara Area Music Collective is holding this year’s Mardi Gras at the Kinvara Community Centre on Saturday, February 13.Every year, KAM throws a Mardi Gras party to celebrate its birthday, as a community event with music, dancing, food, drink and optional fancy dress to raise funds for a local cause. This year’s party is again a charity event, featuring three live bands and all proceeds will go to South Galway Flood Relief and the Gort Family Resource Centre.While the traditional Mardi Gras originated in New Orleans, KAM are finding ways to make it their own. The event starts at 8pm.“Last year’s event was a great success with five bands, Louisiana chicken gumbo, face painting, a licensed bar and lots of dancing. “This year we aim to carry on that good-time carnival tradition, with three live bands, with the emphasis firmly …

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Funding allocated to repair ‘atrocious’ roads

Roads in South Galway are in an “atrocious condition” according to a local Fianna Fáil councillor and while he welcomed the funding allocated by the Department of Transport for the county’s roads earlier this week, Councillor Gerry Finnerty felt it could have been approved sooner.The department announced on Monday that the funding allocated to Galway County Council for road improvement and repair exceeded that of any other local authority.It allocated nearly €179 million to road improvement and repair in the county for the year 2010.“In all of South Galway the roads are in an atrocious condition. You are driving along and you can see where the roads are boiled up and on that boil you can see clay, muck, gravel, sand and stone,” Councillor Finnerty explained.“In this day and age when you have NCT tests and car tax and people are having to pay for all that, they deserve roads in good condition. The amount of damage done to cars …

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