Compiled by SYLVIA THOMPSON
- Take Away My Way is a cookery competition for secondary school students in which they compete to cook a healthier version of their favourite take-away dish. See safefood.eu/takeawaymyway, call 1850 404 567, or e-mail takeawaymyway@gmail.com.
- The last in the current series of meditation classes, which claim to encourage participants to connect with their inner wisdom and radiate greater levels of happiness, takes place in the Seraph Centre, 15 Heytesbury Street, Dublin 8, tomorrow from 8.15pm-10pm. Cost €15. Newcomers welcome. Call or text Patricia Sheehan at 086-3576142 to reserve a place.
- The Con Tempo Quartet will give a free Christmas concert at University Hospital, Galway, on Thursday at 2pm as part of its series of free Christmas concerts in the city.
- Sensational Kids, the family support charity in Kildare town, will host a series of talks and workshops in the next few weeks.
On Thursday at 7pm, speech and language therapist Veronica Murphy will offer practical strategies to help children’s communication development. Cost €10.
On Tuesday, December 13th at 7pm, occupational therapist Margot Barry will speak about what constitutes readiness for school.
Advance booking on tel: 045-520900. See also sensationalkids.ie for details of new pop-up children’s toy shop in Courtyard Shopping Centre, Newbridge, Co Kildare, until December 24th.
- Prof Rose Anne Kenny, the founder of the The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, will give a free public lecture, The End of Ageing, at 6pm on Monday, December 12th, in the Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin. Advance booking essential at ria.ie or tel: 01-6762570.
