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The official opening of the National Convention Centre in Dublin recently should have a direct benefit for business tourism in Mayo and Galway, according to Fáilte Ireland. More than 120 overseas VIPs and top business tourism buyers from across the globe attended the ‘Meet in Ireland 2010’ workshop which was part of a seven day business tourism blitz undertaken by Fáilte Ireland to fully exploit the opening of the CCD.

J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics has partnered with local businesses to introduce a new module, Innovation, Creativity and Enterprise, for their final-year Bachelor of Commerce students.

The second annual COPE Triathlon will take place in Salthill on Sunday June 13. The event will consist of a 750m swim followed by a 20km cycle and a 5km run along the Galway coastline.

Fáilte Ireland officially launched its newly-revitalised Yeats Passport Trail — which takes in three sites in south Galway — at an event at Sligo City Hall this week. The event coincided with the 70th anniversary of the death of William Butler Yeats on January 28 1939. The trail was officially launched by another Nobel laureate, the renowned poet Seamus Heaney.

The countdown has begun in earnest for the Volvo Ocean Race stopover in May, and the organisers are calling on the city to “pull together” to showcase Galway for the long-term benefit of the local economy.

The Volvo Ocean Race has delivered a much-needed boost to the local economy during its two-week Galway stopover.

The late prominent city businessman Raymond Rooney was remembered this week as a man of energy and enthusiasm who possessed a “remarkable” can-do attitude.

More than 60 businesses from the west and northwest regions successfully participated in a year-long training and development programme in 2009 specifically aimed at progressing the offering of spiritual tourism experiences for visitors to the area.