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Enterprise Ireland’s recent ‘Get Export Ready’ workshop held in Castlebar attracted 50 individuals from almost 40 companies throughout the west region to hear about the Enterprise Ireland programme of supports aimed at getting more Irish companies exporting. The workshop was aimed at pre-export and early stage exporting companies, and existing businesses seeking to explore new opportunities in export markets.

TecSupport is a locally-owned IT services company that provides IT support and maintenance for business. Due to increasing staff numbers and an evergrowing customer base, it has recently moved from Ballybrit to a new office in the Galway Technology Centre, Mervue.

Connacht based firms are resorting to using credit cards and bank overdrafts to fund the export of their goods, according to new research.

A free seminar on the gold market will be held in Ballybane Enterprise Centre on Wednesday July 20. Presented by Greg Heaslip of Solid Gold Financial, this seminar will be of interest to existing and potential investors in the gold market. Commencing at 6.30pm the seminar will offer an introduction to the gold market and provide an overview of the relationship of gold to the world financial system.

Graduates 4 International Growth (G4IG), developed and delivered by Enterprise Ireland in partnership with UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School, gets underway this week. Enterprise Ireland is placing 50 top-level graduates in export-led firms with markets across the globe, creating graduate job opportunities and helping boost export sales.

More resources and additional housing liason officers are needed to properly deal with the scourge of the anti-social behaviour problem throughout the county which is costing thousands of euro, that is according to Galway County Councillor Seán Canney.

Research conducted by Irish trade credit insurer Atradius shows that the retail and construction sectors in Ireland are still struggling as economic recovery is under way. The latest Market Monitor to be published by Atradius expects improvement in GDP but this is accompanied by a small increase in unemployment and corporate insolvencies totalling 1,800 cases – up from 1,409 in 2009.

Subsidies for and trade agreements with the Third World will be examined and discussed at a public meeting in the Galway One World Centre in the Bridge Mills on Tuesday at 7pm.

Fine Gael councillor Noreen Heston has come up with an interesting suggestion to tackle the problem of litter within the county. She put down a motion which was due to be debated at Castlebar Town Council’s meeting last night (Thursday) calling on Mayo County Council to make the facilities at the council’s landfill sites free to all residents of the county for one week.

At a time when the role of food production had re-emerged as vital to national and EU objectives it was incongruous to see the Irish Exporters Association attempting to diminish the economic value of Irish agriculture in the context of WTO negotiations.