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Galway is set to continue to attract multi-national companies and with it more jobs over the next couple of years, that is according to IDA Ireland’s west regional manager Jim Murren following an announcement of 50 new posts this week by Synchronoss Technologies Inc.

THE TULCA Festival of Visual Art takes place in Galway from November 6 to 21 and as well as the many exhibitions, there will also be a series of workshops and talks.

The announcement that the Road Safety Authority has lodged a planning application for a new NCT test centre in Ballinasloe is a most welcome development for road users not alone in Ballinasloe but the surrounding areas said FG East Galway Ulick Burke. This will certainly go along way in reducing waiting times for necessary safety vehicle testing throughout the county he said.

A Galway based group hope to set up the first ecological community in the west of Ireland. The Galway Sustainable Community Project (GSCP) aims to construct a small, purpose-built and environmentally sustainable settlement in the west where residents will produce some of their own food and energy and form a strong, close-knit, community.

The innappropriate spending by senior academics at NUI Galway’s Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) was exposed this week with revelations that more than €108,000 was spent on hiring private jets and €154,000 was used to send up to 50 staff to conferences at a luxury resort in Crete.

“Well your honour, the defendant was just making his way into the city centre, having disembarked from the Queen of the Seas luxury cruise liner, when he was set upon by the homeless man who proceeded to beat him about the head with his iPad. He then walked past the President Higgins Memorial Theatre, crossed the Conneely pedestrian footbridge over the Corrib, past the former courthouse which is now the virtual artspace, and was enjoying his quadruple shot mocha mocha latte when the attack occurred. The homeless man, obviously addicted to connectivity, came up to him and asked him if he had any spare USBs”

GALWAY ARTISTS are being invited to submit work for a number of exhibitions that will be taking place in Galway next month.

A NEW play, which opens tonight as part of the Galway Theatre Festival, will depict the women who chose to leap from the twin towers on 9/11 rather than be consumed by flames.

TULCA, GALWAY’S Festival of Visual Arts 2010, returns from November 6 to 21 and will present work by more than 40 national and international artists across eight venues and public spaces in Galway city.

O’Donnellan & Joyce have recently brought to the open market a truly outstanding ground floor luxury two bedroomed apartment located at the popular and very well maintained apartment complex of Rockbarton Court in Salthill.