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Galway Executive Skillnet’s (GES) autumn training schedule was launched last week by adventurer Karen Weekes at Galway Rowing Club. Kinvara-based Ms Weekes is planning to be the first Irish woman to row solo across the Atlantic Ocean as part of her #SHECANDO2021 campaign.

A new radio station will start broadcasting in Galway this weekend when Freedom FM airs on 87.9FM.

EMPOWER, the women’s entrepreneurship programme, which is run by the GMIT iHubs, is now accepting applications for the next EMPOWER START programme. The EMPOWER Programme is free to participants and aims to fast track female-led businesses in the West and North West of Ireland. EMPOWER is funded by the Department of Justice and Equality and the European Social Fund.

Ireland may geographically be closer to Britain, but politically, with Brexit, and the UK becoming a ‘third country outside the EU, France is now the Republic’s closest neighbour - a relationship the French are keen to develop and deepen.

It was inevitable in a county which was a stronghold of hurling that women would eventually want to play the game like their male counterparts. The game of camogie has been played in Galway since the early 1900s. Experimental rules for the female game were drawn up in 1903 and the first public match took place that year, and so the game of camogie was officially launched.

Galway are up against the doyens of camogie when they head to Croke Park for Sunday's All Ireland final (4pm ).

CWS International GmbH, the German-based services group has acquired Galway-based Specialised Sterile Environments Ltd. (SSE), an Irish company specialised in cleanroom cleaning, decontamination and hygiene services to the Irish Pharma and Medtech industry.

THREE YEARS after this critically acclaimed comic short story collection, Juggling With Turnips, Karl MacDermott returns with a comic novel - 58% Cabbage.

Galway Executive Skillnet has launched its autumn training schedule with some exciting new programmes to help businesses emerge “from survival to growth” post-Covid.

Native Irish oak saplings from Coolattin Forest, donated by Berna Hayden, added an ecological flavour to the sixth annual awards ceremony at Kumon Galway City West on Sunday. Students collected their saplings and their academic awards at an open air, restrictions compliant event, at the Galway Greyhound Stadium.