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“Sinn Féin, whether we agree with it and accept what it says or not, is an organisation brimful with answers to our problems and they are answers, in the main, that directly confront the policies being pursued by other parties.”

AWARD-WINNING Spanish dance company Aracaladanza are among the star attractions at next month’s Baboró festival with their latest production, Nubes (Clouds), inspired by the work of surrealist painter René Magritte.

Ireland’s banking system is still not functioning as a business banking system and until it does job creation will be stymied. That’s what Dara Calleary TD told the 31st Annual MacGill Summer School in Glenties, Donegal.

Ireland is an entrepreneurial nation. We have earned a strong reputation for our work ethic and ability to turn ideas into money-making industries. During these tough economic times, people are being encouraged to act on their entrepreneurial instincts and not give up. Caroline Gordon acted on her entrepreneurial instincts 15 years ago this May bank holiday weekend, having opened her accountancy practice in Swinford on Tuesday, May 7, 1996.

The Committee on Petitions at the European Parliament is to seek an explanation from Galway County Council regarding the financial hardship suffered by a number of families following the flooding crisis of late 2009.

These days everything seems to be classed as ‘high-tech’ from phones to cars to iPads to games to television on demand. Now the ancient art of cooking has entered an era of research and is producing a food style that is know as molecular gastronomy. Over the centuries cooking has evolved mainly through trial and error, noting carefully what worked and then attempting to replicate it again and again. That is the basis of a recipe and now we have thousands if not millions of recipe books to choose from. However, there has been very little pure research into exactly why certain recipes worked at the molecular level.

THE OVER The Edge reading, with Miriam Gamble, James Lawless, and Anne McManus, takes place in the Galway City Library, St Augustine Street, this evening at 6.30pm.

MEP Jim Higgins this week expressed his concern that the presence of African Pond Weed in Lough Corrib is leaving Ireland open to large EU fines, unless the situation is rectified soon.

Two Mayo businesswomen are to the fore in launching a comprehensive survey to establish how the EU can assist Irish SMEs to sustain and generate jobs, as well as attracting new business throughout Europe.

Loreto Secondary School Kilkenny are the winners of the fifth annual Model EU Council which took place on March 11 in Dublin Castle. Secondary school students from across Ireland role-played as European politicians in a debate on a mock EU directive as Enda Kenny joined EU officials in Brussels this week.