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The countdown has begun to the Galway Races and this year’s Summer Festival kicks off with the Galway’s Best Hotels Day, with all seven races sponsored by Galway’s leading hotels and the feature race of the day the carlton.ie/galwaycity (Q.R) Handicap.

NUI Galway was named in the top three big winners, securing over € 60 million in research funding under PRTLI Cycle 5 - the Programme for Research in Third Level Institutions, announced last weekend by An Taoiseach, Mr Brian Cowen T.D.

Global leader in operational endpoint security, Lumension®, is expanding its Galway-based global R&D Centre, it was announced this week.. The company, which established the operation in October 2009 with the intention of employing 30 people in the facility, now expects to employ over 50 people by the end of 2010.

Oranmore B&Bs, hotels and businesses are losing business because tourists cannot locate the town due to the complete absence of signage on the M6.

A Galway-based music social networking website for independent artists, www.mytunerox.com, will be launched in August with a national battle of the bands competition.

Claregalway residents have taken their campaign to build a secondary school in the area directly to the Tánaiste and Minister for Education Mary Coughlan.

This Sunday Antiques dealers from all over Ireland will converge on the Galway Bay Hotel for the annual Galway Antiques and Collectables Fair. The fair will feature a large display of rare and beautiful items including fine furniture, delicate china and porcelain, antiquarian prints, old linen and precious diamonds set in gold and platinum.

More than 100 jobs will have been lost in NUI Galway in the space of two years, while 39 jobs will have been lost from GMIT, new figures from the Higher Education Authority (HEA) have revealed.

A memorable evening is most certainly assured when the first Donkey Derby to be held in Galway city for more than 30 years takes place on Thursday next July 29 at the Galway Greyhound Stadium.

Corrib Rangers Football Club will have a permanent home while underage soccer in the city has also been given a boost with the passing of the new Corrib Park Recreation Masterplan.