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“Insurance costs have become extortionate, ripping off consumers and closing down businesses. The whole industry is in need of a radical overhaul.”

Sinn Féin Mayo TD has said that the Government and Local Authorities should be seeking out small businesses in Mayo and encouraging them to apply to the Small Business Assistance Scheme for COVID (SBASC), before it closes next month.

Mayo Sinn Féin TD Rose Conway-Walsh has warned that the government is continuing to fail families through its ongoing failure to address skyrocketing childcare fees, despite being in power for a year.

Rent the Runway has announced that all employees based in Ireland are offered 20-weeks of fully paid leave as part of its gender neutral family leave policy designed to support families. The company’s International Technology Office is located in The Old Schoolhouse in Galway City.

Last weekend saw the official commencement of works at the site of the former Grove Hospital Tuam, with the formal commencement of the building works ceremony of the new Community Healthcare Hub for Mental Health and Disability Services.

The Immigrant Council of Ireland is calling on migrants and councillors from Galway to take part in the Migrant Councillor Internship Scheme.

Did you know Enable Ireland’s charity shop has moved? They are now located in the heart of the city at 3, Cross Street Lower, Galway. Their new shop is opposite The Corn Store, and near to Charlie Byrne’s Bookstore and the Dáil Bar.

A new initiative to form a wool co-operative to market and sell Galway wool is “a giant step forward” for sheep farmers in the county.

Families in Galway needing childcare are burdened with weekly fees of €168 per child - the highest childcare costs in Connacht.

Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT) and Mayo County Council recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) setting out plans for the two organisations to work closely together on projects of strategic importance across a range of mutually beneficial areas and to promote sustainable partnerships.