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Having experienced the benefits of adult education herself, Oranmore native Nuala Keher will today travel to the world’s newest country, South Sudan in Central Africa, where she will help train other adult educators there to tackle the country’s crippling illiteracy problem  When Nuala’s four now-adult children were younger, she returned to study at NUI Galway and subsequently secured a post there in the Adult Education sector.
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Professor Michael O’Flaherty’s work in the field of human rights has seen him travel all over the world and though he has returned to his hometown for his latest post, the effects of his work will have a global reach.
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It’s an exciting time for Irish television drama according to Newcastle native Nora-Jane Noone, who enjoyed the sense of community involved in filming TV3’s new drama ‘Deception’ in Galway.
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As Chairperson and founder of Galway Cat Rescue, Dr Claudia Frank has worked tirelessly for the past three years to help improve the plight of the thousands of feral cats that are abandoned throughout Galway City and County.
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Having spent over two decades in radio journalism, RTÉ’s new Western Correspondent Pat McGrath is relishing the prospect of delivering news stories from the West of Ireland through a variety of media.
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Peter was awarded the Football Association of Ireland (FAI) Referee of the Year award at a ceremony in Donegal this month. Having been honoured as referee of the year by his national football association, you might expect that Peter Flaherty had always had a love of officiating, but the Carraroe native actually fell into refereeing.
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While he keeps track of his ‘naughty’ and ‘nice’ list on an iPad nowadays, the man in red is busier than ever and has to divide his time between the Christmas Market on Eyre Square and his headquarters at the North Pole to get everything done.
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If any of the current crop of Galway hurlers feels dejected after having given so much this season only to be eventually pipped at the post by Kilkenny, they need only look to Sylvie Linnane for inspiration.
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Christy O’Connor Jnr will forever have a place in golfing history thanks to his famous two-iron shot at the 18th in The Belfry during the 1989 Ryder Cup, a shot that all but secured the trophy for the European team.
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Galway native Derval recently welcomed EU Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn to Cape Town to show her the work she is doing on an EU-funded tuberculosis vaccination clinic. Athenry woman Derval Reidy has spent the past three years in South Africa trying to help stem the epidemic of infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis  Having done her Leaving Cert at Presentation College Athenry and gone on to study nursing at Trinity College and St James’ Hospital, Derval decided to pursue a long-held interest in science and study Microbiology in UCD.
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Inspired by his love of small rural communities, County Galway ‘Volunteer of the Year’ John Martin Griffin believes that communities should have more involvement in the provision of services in their localities With rural Garda Stations facing closure and Post Offices next in line for cuts, the role of community volunteers is growing ever more important.
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Events like the Galway Science and Technology Festival play an important role in attracting students to these fields, which are so vital to Ireland’s economic future, says festival Vice-Chairman and Dean of Science at NUI Galway Professor Tom Sherry This is Prof.
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Galway County Librarian, Pat McMahon, believes that there are only two requirements to being a good librarian: you must love people and love books Originally from Limerick, Pat started work in the City Library there in 1971, having been an avid library user prior to that.
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Irish radio legend Tony Fenton still remembers the first time he visited Connemara. It was 25 years ago and he was on a scuba diving trip to Clifden. He still recalls the experience of that first trip.
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