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Chef, restaurateur, author, playwright, founder and businessman JP McMahon has been announced as the Galway Chamber of Commerce President’s Award nominee in association with PwC. The award is presented to someone who has had an exceptional impact on Galway City, the region and their sector.

An international authority on leadership development and organisational health, who lives in the United States and has a second home in Galway, is forging business links between Ireland and a state in the south-eastern region of the US.

British pub giant Wetherspoons is selling up in Ireland, and experts predict its Galway property to be the major asset.

Ireland has a long history of individuals, groups, and charities assisting homeless people through charitable donations, fundraising activities, voluntary work, and the provision of accommodation. While philanthropic efforts can never solve the problem of homelessness, such endeavours have left their mark in the historical archives.

In the 1930s, Ireland instructed all of its consul officials in Europe not to issue visas to Jewish refugees, but the country was also in a state of economic stagnation at the time and Seán Lemass realised that new industries would help the country. An Irish Jewish businessman, Marcus Witztum, offered to help him and went to Paris, met Henri Orbach there who owned a small hat factory and suggested he open a business in Ireland, a safer place for people of the Jewish persuasion than continental Europe. Orbach agreed.

A 77-year-old former Christian Brother has been sentenced to 27 months in prison with the final seven months suspended after being convicted of the abuse of a schoolboy 50 years ago.

A well-known Galway businessman said he had waited fifty years for his journey to justice to be completed, after a former Christian Brother who indecently assaulted him in the early 1970s was told he will be sentenced in March.

A well-known Galway businessman said he had waited fifty years for his journey to justice to be completed, after a former Christian Brother who indecently assaulted him in the early 1970s was told he will be sentenced in March.

Fianna Fáil councillor Alan Cheevers has criticised the department of local Government for not allocating funding to grit pathways and roads in council housing estates across the city.

Ashford Castle has launched the second in its series of annual experiences for wine experts and enthusiasts that combines outstanding world wines with exceptional Irish produce. Taking place from 3-5 February 2023, Meet the Makers at Ashford Castle will also feature a rare opportunity to meet and learn from some of Ireland’s leading winemakers, all of whom are first generation Irish Wine Geese.