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Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, has appointed Renmore’s Dr Martina Prendergast as International Funding Manager. The strategic appointment is key to achieving the centre’s goals of securing international investment in its leading-edge research.

Unprecedented levels of uncertainty around business continuity - is the key finding of the first major new national business survey conducted since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ireland on March 23 and 24 by Ibec - the group that represents Irish business.

A suite of supports will be made available to businesses in Westmeath impacted by COVID-19, Longford/Westmeath Fine Gael Deputy, Peter Burke, has confirmed.

Midlands Science CEO, Jackie Gorman, was in attendance at the Science Foundation Ireland Discover Awards 2020 partners meeting in recent times to receive two ‘Discover Awards’ for projects exploring science capital training and ASD appropriate Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) outreach.

With the general election this week, Ibec, the group that represents Irish business, is calling on the next government to take the brave and necessary steps to deliver effective regional development.

Labour candidate for the Longford-Westmeath constituency, Alan Mangan, has criticised the Fine Gael Government, for its ongoing failure to deliver jobs and investment in the Midlands, with the latest report from Enterprise Ireland showing a loss of jobs in the region during 2019, adding to the losses from Bord na Móna.

Galway University Foundation said last evening that it will work to provide updates on all of the spending matters raised in an investigation by the Charities Regulator.

Elections to Údarás na Gaeltachta must be re-introduced to “return power to the people” and allow Gaeltacht residents to “elect their own representatives directly to the Údarás board”.

Galway's local authorities will have the power to earmark land specifically for first time buyers, if a new Fianna Fáil Bill, which sets aside 30 per cent of zoned land aside for first-time buyers, is passed in the Dáil.

Irish business group Ibec has welcomed the allocation of €2m towards the development of a Technological University (TU) in the West and North-West region.