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A well-known design business is this year’s winner of the Galway County Enterprise Award for 2022.

Lorraine Hall is director of The Cleaning Corporation, Breaffy, Castlebar - a husband and wife operation and thriving cleaning business since 1995.

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The Penny Dinners committee was a name given to a voluntary group who used to provide free dinners for 40 to 80 impoverished children four times per week in the late 1920s and early 1930s. In fact the title was a misnomer, in no sense were they penny dinners. The children could not afford to give a penny for them, nor could the committee provide a dinner for a penny. The funding for these meals came from the people of Galway and also from fundraising productions they put on, mostly in the Columban Hall.

AFTER FOUR keenly contested heats, the final of the hugely popular comedy competition, Show Me The Funny, takes place on Monday March 7 at The King’s Head Bar..

Glenlo Abbey Hotel & Estate have won first place in two awards in the past month, named Ireland’s No1 Hotel for 2022 by the Irish Independents Travel Readers Awards and then winning Booking.coms “Best Traveller Review Award”.

A recent visit to the Eyre Square Shopping Centre has brought to our attention to staff and stock issues in Galway’s retail industry. Speaking to shop workers through glass screens, although something we’ve become accustomed to, reminded us of the ways in which businesses are trying to adapt to the ‘new normal’.

On January 10 Galway United’s players and coaching staff reported for pre-season training in Drom. There was one notable absentee with Maurice Nugent embarking on a new journey to work in London.

It is coming up to CAO time of the year, and once again students are being bombarded with all sorts of course choices. However, the most lucrative course of all is often overlooked by many: computer science (or its related course electronics and computing). Computer science is a direct gateway to the global tech industry that has spawned the largest companies in the world such as Amazon, Microsoft, Stripe, and of course, Genesys, the global leader in cloud based software for customer care. Marc Andreessen, who developed the first widely used browser, Mosaic, stated that “software is eating the world”. This is being borne out as we see AirBnb (travel), Spotify (music), Netflix (television), Zoom (video conferencing), and many more disrupt their respective industries and change the way we live, work, and play.

Galway and the west features prominently next Wednesday (January 19) when Neven Maguire presents an episode of Neven’s Irish Seafood Trails, in which he travels around Ireland meeting some of the producers and chefs who are responsible for Ireland’s great seafood reputation.