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With the Christmas market coming to an end in Eyre Square, having attracted tens of thousands of people to the city over the past three weeks, despite the inclement weather, the Galway Advertiser is asking shoppers across the city and county to concentrate their Christmas spend locally to save jobs and to preserve communities.

Galway received a positive boost yesterday with the announcement that leading US telecommunications company Genband will be investing €8 million in establishing an international headquarters and business centre in the city and creating more than 100 new jobs.

At this difficult economic time, many businesses are closing, and many local jobs are under threat. What is our response to be? Will we sit, moaning about the recession, and accepting it as a fait accompli which is out of our control? Will we wait for someone else to do something? Will we satisfy ourselves by criticising the developers, bankers, government and various others who have brought us to this doom laden place? And when we've done that, and apportioned the blame, what then? Will we sink further into the morass, or will we look for a solution?

Uncovering the fun side of science through “hands-on learning” initiatives has now been proven to translate into young people going on to third level science and technology – the graduates who will sustain and enhance future economic growth.

Olympic gold medalist Michael Carruth will be the special guest at a boxing tournament in Galway on November 14.

The Born building in Newtownsmith was voted Galway’s favourite building in a telephone poll carried out by Galway Bay FM to mark Open House Galway 2010 which was held last weekend. Born headed a list which included the Augustinian Church, the Marine Institute, GMIT, and the Galway City Museum.

A day long symposium will be held in GMIT on Friday November 5 to create public debate on a vision for Galway for the next generation. Organised by the Galway 2040 Initiative it is led by Paul Shelly and Rory O’Connor, Jim Fennell (GMIT & Marine Institute), Professor Kevin Leyden (NUIG CISC) and Michael Coyle (Galway Chamber).

A brave Galway explorer who dared to venture into the harsh terrain of the Australian bush 150 years ago is to be honoured this weekend at City Hall and at the Galway City Museum.

Mayor of Galway Michael Crowe will launch the 21st consecutive celebration of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Pride today (Thursday). The festival will run from today until Sunday with celebrations from sporting events to art exhibitions, and the annual Pride festival, taking place around the city.

Local Independent TD Noel Grealish came in for blistering criticism this week from a number of politicians who accused him of engaging in “political opportunism” over his threat to withdraw his support for the Government if further cuts to frontline health services in the west go ahead.