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Born Clothing launched its new Young Fashions Boutique downstairs in their Newtownsmith store last Thursday.

The search for Mayo’s most illustrious innovations begins, with the call for entries for The Irish Times InterTradeIreland Innovation Awards. These awards showcase excellence in innovation, across a range of groundbreaking products and services. Entries for The Irish Times InterTradeIreland Innovation Awards are encouraged from all sectors -agri-food, bioscience, energy and the environment, manufacturing, creative industries, and IT and communications.

The search for Galway’s most illustrious innovations begins, with the call for entries for The Irish Times InterTradeIreland Innovation Awards.

Reacting to the closure of Homebase in Castlebar last weekend and the loss of 30 jobs in Castlebar, Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane, said that austerity is undermining the domestic economy and making the crisis in the retail sector worse by the day.

Sinn Féin councillor Thérèse Ruane, has welcomed the move by Electric Ireland to freeze its prices until January 2014 but warns that more needs to be done to tackle fuel poverty. She is calling on Labour to deliver on their party's promise to tackle fuel poverty and to use Budget 2014 to give some hope to families to make ends meet.

Members of Active Retirement Ireland (ARI) in the Midlands region met in Tullamore this week to discuss the cumulative impact of austerity on the elderly to date and to raise these concerns with local representatives as Budget 2014 approaches. Many who are reliant on the State pension noted the erosion of its value due to additional taxes and rising prices. Accompanied by reduced entitlements and benefits, the elderly are at increasing risk of experiencing isolation, dependency, and deprivation. Members, in their submission, request the protection of the pension and the reversal of savage cuts made to the household benefit package introduced in Budget 2013.

The Government is making a relatively small change to the system of annual road tax. This is being done to correct an inherent unfairness in the way that car tax is treated if a car spends a portion of its time off the road.

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Jobs Dara Calleary has said the OECD report published must wake the government up from its complacency over the jobs crisis, in particular the deeply worrying levels of long-term unemployment and youth unemployment.

City & Guilds in conjunction with the Irish Centre for Business Excellence (ICBE) is offering an innovative Customer Service Skills programme in Galway which offers a fresh start to people who have been unemployed for 12 months or more.

Judge Mary Devins banned a Ballyhaunis man from driving for four years after he was convicted for a third time for driving without insurance at Ballyhaunis District Court. Tommy Webb, Cornageachta, Aghamore who represented himself in court said that he had believed he was insured to drive the car he was stopped driving under a different insurance policy, but following investigations by the Gardai this proved not to be the case.