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Sustainable Energy Ireland (SEI) has commenced its annual search for Ireland’s most energy efficient businesses with the launch of the Sustainable Energy Awards 2009 and is looking for the best in Westmeath in a number of categories.

The Midlands Gateway Chamber announced this week that the principal after-dinner speaker at the Ambassadors Ball on May 8 is one of Ireland’s best know politicians, Charlie McCreevy.

Over 50 per cent of employers in the Midlands have highlighted management ability as the most pressing skill need in their staff, according to a new report published today.

A €3.5 million EU funded collaborative research project aimed at revolutionising the processing of high quality adult stem cells has been launched at NUI Galway.

In the 13th century the Anglo-Normans settled here and built their castle and town and called it Baile na Srutháin because of its many streams. They later changed the name to Galway after the river on which it stood, and from then on water was a major asset to the town’s development. These streams were to supply many fish, turn many mill wheels, and give access and egress in ages before roads were built, canals dug, or railways laid.

The Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association will hold its AGM at the Carlton Shearwater Hotel, Ballinaslo, on Saturday at 11am.

Athletics superstar, Eamonn Coghlan, will officially open the new Olympic-standard athletics facility at Athlone Institute of Technology this Sunday May 17 at 11.30am.

The CEO of international food company, Aryzta AG, has been named as the Midlands Gateway Chamber Ambassador of the Year 2009. Owen Killian, who is a native of Drum, south Roscommon, was presented with the prestigious award at a gala ball in Athlone on Friday evening.

To celebrate the arrival of the Volvo Ocean Race in Galway a free public talk entitled “The Making of Galway Bay” will be held on Monday May 25 at 6pm in the Cairnes Lecture Theatre, NUI Galway.

Knock Museum was this week highly commended in two categories at cross border Museum Awards which were hosted by the Heritage Council, in partnership with the Northern Ireland Museums Council to coincide with International Museums Day.