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Laura Lynch & Associates is a dynamic tax practice based in Galway city centre, providing strategic and relevant tax and business advice to its clients, who include individual and corporate business owners, business angel investor syndicates and emerging entrepreneurs, particularly in the Medtech sector. We deal with personal, corporate and international issues across all tax heads, applying a commercial and personal approach to a given set of circumstances.

Payments to elected councillors and former councillors in Mayo last year came to a total of €1,106,883.29, according to figures released by the local authority this week.

The first week in March will see small businesses and budding entrepreneurs gather across the country for Local Enterprise Week 2020.

If you have an innovative business idea with a plan to establish your own company, or you are already at an early stage of development, the New Frontiers Programme is now open to new applications and can provide you with funding, help and support to accelerate your business development.

The Athlone branch of Barnardos Ireland received a welcome charitable donation of €1,000 from local landscape artist, Anna Boles, the proceeds from sales of her Athlone 2020 calendar.

Q: I am going for an interview for a job in my local county council. I’m told I should know stuff about what the council does but, to be honest, I haven’t much of a clue. I’m not politically minded, more of a ‘live and let live’ type woman. Where do I even start? (ER, email).

Galway and the west of Ireland have become a hotbed for entrepreneurial activity in recent years. In fact, you may not know it but the word “entrepreneur” was coined by an Irishman from the Wild Atlantic Way. Richard Cantillon, born in the coastal town of Ballyheigue, County Kerry, came up with the first known definition of an entrepreneur in the business sense in his French book “Essai”. He defined entrepreneurs as “non-fixed income earners who pay known costs of production but earn uncertain incomes, due to the speculative nature of pandering to an unknown demand for their product”. Would you believe that Cantillon’s definition is from 1730, nearly three hundred years ago? It could have been written just yesterday.

Commercial rates will rise by four per cent next year, but there will be no increase in 2021 - after Mayo County Council's budget for 2020 was passed this week.

A loan of €10 million has been approved by the Galway County Council to purchase land for more social and affordable housing.

Peadar Monaghan Auctioneer is also offering for sale a derelict house on an approximately 0.5 acre site located on the L6212 road off the N83 Galway Tuam road.