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NUIG’s digital research centre is to benefit from a €23 million cash injection which will be phased over five years and is hoped will create new jobs.

Deputy Phil Hogan has tabled a Dáil motion calling for the implementation of a Fine Gael plan to reform the Oireachtas.

A 23-year-old Czech national charged with the assault and murder of a woman in Connemara last year has been further remanded in custody.

In this week’s article we will look at the organisations providing support to entrepreneurs in the process of setting up a business. These groups can provide guidance and support to entrepreneurs from the conception of a new business through to its realisation.

JOHN SIKOWSKI, a leading exponent of Scottish traditional dance, will be the featured dance teacher at the all-day jig workshop at the Féile Chóilín Sheáin Dharachin Ros Muc.

Mayo Sports Partnership in association with Athletics Ireland and Westport Athletic Club will continue its meet and train programme in the Westport Athletic Club facilities on Tuesdays April 14, 21, 28, and May 5 at 7.30pm. Meet and train sessions are open to all adults and there is no upper age limit. For further information contact Anne at Mayo Sports Partnership on 087 697 3587 or Mary Ryan Chambers on 087 663 6839.

On Tuesday, the US celebrated a major milestone in its history with the inauguration of Barack Obama as the first African-American to become that country’s president.

The Fine Gael spokesperson on community, rural and Gaeltacht affairs Deputy Michael Ring has called for a reduction in VAT charges in order to stimulate new house sales. But Dep Ring is empathic the benefit should only apply to first-time buyers and not developers.

Irish Rural Link — the national organisation campaigning for sustainable rural communities — will present Carlow, Kilkenny, and South Tipperary Ring a Link with a National Rural Award at IRL’s annual conference in Co Waterford this week.

Rural isolation, community apathy, and dwindling school numbers will come into focus this week on TG4’s popular weekly news show 7 Lá. Journalist and broadcaster Piaras Ó Raghallaigh reports from north Mayo where community groups are struggling to survive in the post Celtic Tiger era as remote communities face the reality of funding cuts, red tape, inadequate services and social exclusion.