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With the unemployment rate in Ireland currently sitting at five per cent, down 10 per cent from 2011, competition to attract and retain employees is at an all-time high.

Galway Simon Community is marking its 40 year anniversary with the launch of a new campaign entitled Journey Home.

Diarmuid Doherty, general site manager of Valeo, presents a cheque to Western Alzheimers.

The Restaurants' Association of Ireland (RAI) has called for changes in government policy to ensure that restaurants can stay viable.

Residents in Clybaun Heights are “at their wits’ end” over a situation which has seen an unbuilt, green area become the site of persistent dumping, with little or no action taken to stop it.

According to the latest Rent Index from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB), in the October-December period (quarter four) of 2018, the standardised national average rent of tenancies in Mayo was €623 - up from €577 (+€46) one year earlier - and down €9 on the previous quarter (quarter three 2018).

The Connacht Property Auction is now taking entries for its upcoming public auction event, which takes place on May 2 in the Menlo Park Hotel, Galway. The company is the only auction company in Ireland which does not charge any upfront costs to enter a property into its auction. It also offers a free property valuation to their clients to guide vendors on a realistic target price.

Homelessness in the west is growing at eight times the national average with almost 600 people in emergency accommodation last month, according to the Galway Simon Community.

Did you acquire a residential investment property that was vacant for a period of at least 12 months before it was first let? You may be able to claim a tax deduction for pre-letting expenses against rental income in the first year.