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Western Motors with Volkswagen and Audi dealerships based in Galway and Drogheda has launched a fully functional dedicated dealership smartphone application which operates on both iphone and android platforms.

A new Galway-based deals company has entered the growing online deals market dominated by a number of large global players. Through their website www.livingitup.ie the Galway company offers deeply discounted deals to subscribers in the Galway area. They are based at the Innovation in Business Centre at Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology, a hub for Innovative start-up businesses.

Woodie’s DIY and Garden Centres have launched a new series of How to DIY videos on www.woodiesdiy.com. This new online DIY resource includes over 100 detailed, step by step videos, which will enable people to complete a wide range of DIY tasks at home, with greater ease.

The worst thing about looting (apart from the obvious illegality of it and the fact that you never get a bag) is that as soon as you leave the shop at pace, you immediately invalidate any guarantee or warranty rights for the products you have just pilfered and so you end up at home with a pair of Converse runners that you’ve nicked without checking to see if both of them are the same size. Or if the 52-inch plasma telly which you and your mates have just carried down the High Street is actually HD or just HD Ready and therefore no good for sitting back and watching your mates rioting on Sky News when you can’t make out the faces. Oh, the hazards of looting. And here were we all this week thinking that these people who looted are actually at home enjoying the fruits of their labours. You see, looting is so spontaneous. It is like impulse buying, but just sped up by about 10 times.

The worst thing about looting (apart from the obvious illegality of it and the fact that you never get a bag) is that as soon as you leave the shop at pace, you immediately invalidate any guarantee or warranty rights for the products you have just pilfered and so you end up at home with a pair of Converse runners that you’ve nicked without checking to see if both of them are the same size. Or if the 52-inch plasma telly which you and your mates have just carried down the High Street is actually HD or just HD Ready and therefore no good for sitting back and watching your mates rioting on Sky News when you can’t make out the faces. Oh, the hazards of looting. And here were we all this week thinking that these people who looted are actually at home enjoying the fruits of their labours. You see, looting is so spontaneous. It is like impulse buying, but just sped up by about 10 times.

“Social media is essential to every business at the moment and is a low cost form of advertising and promoting events.” That is according to David Glynn of the McWilliam Park Hotel in Claremorris. The hotel has partnered up with renowned trainer Fiona Ashe to provide a one-day seminar on “7 Top Ways To Leverage Social Media” to benefit business owners in the west of Ireland.

Dublin City University students James Burke from Louisburgh and his project partner, Claire Shanahan from Dublin, have been announced as runners-up at this year’s Accenture Leaders of Tomorrow Award for their ‘Drivefeed’ business idea. The masters of business management duo’s idea for a road safety system which facilitates peer-sharing among drivers and other road users was one of only six which made it to the final round of the nationwide competition.

The first free smartphone app to guide tourists around one of Ireland’s most popular tourist destinations, Kilkenny city and county, has been launched.

It’s a troubling irony that while medical science and surgical techniques have never been so advanced, hundreds of people remain waiting in desperation on an ever-growing transplant list, as the number of card-carrying organ donors in Ireland declines.

This weekend Trail Kilkenny’s flagship Nore Valley Walk will officially launch its second phase, to the delight of ardent walkers.