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IdeasLab, the entrepreneurial and innovation hub at University of Galway is hosting an evening to celebrate Inspiring Women Entrepreneurs on Thursday 17 November in Galway City. The event is one of a series of events created to help expand our community of supporters for female entrepreneurs in the region.

Over the course of two days, staff at B&Q Athlone raised €1,087.44 for Focus Ireland’s ‘Raise the Roof’ event in an effort to to help combat homelessness.

Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, has launched a public consultation on a draft national policy framework for open disclosure in the Irish health and social care sector.

ALONE, the charity that supports older people to age at home, has called on all organisations to work together to support older people this winter and ‘share the warmth’.

Headphones and remote controls are among the most hoarded waste electrical and electronic items in Europe, according to new data released this month.

A new study co-authored by a local academic has found that hospitality employees who perceive they are on a ‘zero-hour’ contract, where their hours are unspecified, are particularly vulnerable to burnout.

Now is not the time for risk aversion – this is the overriding message from the President of TUS Professor Vincent Cunnane, as he told graduates of the Technological University of the Shannon (TUS) they have led the way in a new era of education, that TUS will continue to lead, and the system must follow.

Senator Ollie Crowe has this week welcomed The Payment of Wages (Amendment) (Tips and Gratuities) Act 2022 which will see employees given legal rights over the payment of tips. The legislation will come into effect from December 1 2022.

Homelessness and housing charity Galway Simon Community has warned that it is highly concerned that the number of families and children homeless across the West of Ireland is continuing to spiral upwards. The charity attributes the continuing rise to multiple factors which are culminating into what can best be described as ‘a terrible perfect storm.’

Ionbha, The Empathy Book of Ireland, is due to be launched in Charlie Byrnes on Friday November 11.