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A new report has found the drinks industry supports 3,781 jobs in Mayo, generating €84 million in wages in the county.

Councillor Seamus Weir will not be reversing his decision not to run for Fine Gael in this May’s Local Elections, even with the announcement this week by the Minister for Environment, Pat Rabbitte, of a commission headed up by retired judge Catherine McGuinness to investigate the potential of undergrounding the Grid West Project.

House prices have not yet bottomed out in Westmeath, in spite of signs of recovery in the housing market in other parts of the country.

The Midlands could become a hub for business if technology take-up is maximised, participants at the Meeting in the Middle event last Thursday and Friday were told.

Galway may be a successful hub for entrepreneurship and innovation in areas like medical devices and software, but this is not reflected by the level of unemployment in the area.

Westport entrepreneurship expert and media commentator Olwen Dawe was one of four guest speakers at a Young Fine Gael seminar entitled Job Creation Creates Ireland’s Future at the Garret FitzGerald Summer School in Kilkenny last weekend.

The potential for sea food, sea technology, sea energy, and ports/harbours in generating economic growth, will be the subjects of the inaugural Bright Blue Sea Conference.

The decline in prices of four bedroom houses in Mayo has stabilised with the latest survey from property website MyHome.ie showing that asking prices for four bedroom houses in the first quarter of 2013 were unchanged at €149,998. This median asking price, however, is still almost 12 per cent lower than a year ago, the MyHome.ie survey reveals.

There was a drop of 10 per cent in the average price of houses in Galway city by the final quarter of 2012, according to a report by an online property website.