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As part of the upcoming Enterprise and Innovation Week in County Roscommon, renowned business and economics writer, Marc Coleman, will launch an important new initiative called Roscommon Innovation House at an event in the Athlone Springs Hotel in Monksland on Thursday May 26.

Enterprising rural entrepreneurs and farmers from Mayo have been urged to submit their inspiring business ideas for the 2010/11 JFC Innovation Awards, with a prize fund worth €40,000.

A number of Mayo businesses featured in a Discover Ireland day held at Heuston Station in Dublin last week to mark the launch of Fáilte Ireland’s new autumn brochure. Trek West Tours and the Mill Times Hotel, Westport were just two of almost 30 tourism businesses from across the country promoting their wares and offering special offers on accommodation, activities, and attractions to passing commuters.

A blimp bearing advertising for a Tuam based company broke free from where it was tethered at the National Ploughing Championships to roam the air prompting the Irish Aviation Authority (IAA) to put out an official air-safety alert.

More than 200 Irish entrepreneurs, innovators and recession-rebounding business people will converge on NUI Galway’s Cairnes Business School on Saturday September 11, 2010 for the first Bizcamp in the West of Ireland.

More than 200 Irish entrepreneurs, innovators and recession-rebounding business people will converge on NUI Galway’s Cairnes Business School on Saturday September 11 for the first Galway Bizcamp, a conference for networking, learning and sharing.

The annual Irish Manufacturing Conference is to be held in Galway this year at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology on the theme of “Manufacturing Matters in the Smart Economy”.

JFC Manufacturing, Tuam-based plastics company has received a prestigious European Business Award for the Environment from IBEC in the best product category.

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 confirmation last evening of the story that we brought you first last week, that Galway is to host the final leg of the Volvo Ocean Race in 2012, brings to an end a remarkable series of negotiations that have concluded with a tremendous fillip for everyone here in the west. With the state of the economy and few lights on the horizon, the promise of this remarkable event is something that the entire region can plan around for the next two years.