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Supermarket giant Tesco is to open a new store in Oranmore which will result in the creation of 110 jobs, it has been announced.

A newly published economist report from Jim Power on the economic and financial significance of local retailers has praised the Galway-based Joyce supermarket chain for “epitomising all that is good” in the Irish retail sector.

With new CSO figures showing that retail sales outside the motor trade are still falling, Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony has warned that more businesses will close and more jobs will be lost unless the Government develops a national jobs and competitiveness strategy.

The deadline for the Mayo Business Awards has been extended to Friday October 3. There has been a great level of interest to date in the awards and the standard of enquiries so far is very high.

Dublin has ranked ninth in a league table of the world's most expensive places to have a retail business, the latest survey from CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) shows.

The jobless figures for Kilkenny are due to be released by the Central Statistics Office this morning (Friday) and once again it is expected that it will be a bleak outlook for Kilkenny.

Dublin has ranked ninth in a league table of the world's most expensive places to have a retail business, the latest survey from CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) shows.

Councillor Kathleen Funchion of Sinn Féin has said that cuts to social welfare were not merely unjust but were also the least likely way to reduce the budget deficit and would in fact push the economy further into recession.

Galway city is facing into its harshest budget in more than 20 years and there are fears it will include a hike in the commercial rates - coming at a time when city businesses least need them.

Mayo Fine Gael TD John O’Mahony is calling on people to shop in Mayo this Christmas and support Mayo employers and employees. In an attempt to create awareness of the importance of shopping locally, Deputy O’Mahony is making an appeal to shoppers to “stop and think” before they leave the county to do their seasonal shopping.