The contribution made by carers is to be recognised at the Carers of the Year Awards with Offaly nominees being sought.
Offaly's 2,691 family carers provide 65,000 hours of care in the home each week to frail older people, people with disabilities, terminally ill and children with special needs, reports the Offaly Express.
To recognise the enormous contribution of these carers, the majority of whom do this work unpaid, presenters Mary Kennedy and Marty Whelan have launched The Carers Association's Carers of the Year Awards and Young Carer of the Year Awards 2009.
Wexford will be without both Matty Forde and David Walsh for their Leinster SFC quarter-final clash with Kildare at Dr Cullen Park on Saturday evening.
Forde underwent surgery on a back problem in recent weeks, which effectively could mean that he will play no part in the championship campaign, reports RTE Sport.
Walsh, who missed out on the early part of the national league, has been unfortunate with an ankle injury and is only now easing himself back into training at the moment.
RTE reports today that Goalkeeper Kenneth O'Malley is poised for a recall to the Mayo team for the Connacht SFC semi-final clash with Roscommon on Saturday week.
The 21-year-old is set to take the place of Ballina's David Clarke, who tore a groin muscle during the first half of Mayo's defeat to Louth in a challenge match at Garrymore last Friday.
Clarke, who has kept clean sheets in his last six competitive outings, suffered the injury while taking a kick-out and was immediately replaced by O'Malley, who only returned to the fold this season after suffering an horrific kidney injury in 2007.
The contribution made by carers is to be recognised at the Carers of the Year Awards with Offaly nominees being sought.
