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The Irish Organic Weedkiller official opening celebrations begin 3.30pm tomorrow in Claregalway Corporate Park where Galway entrepreneur Oisín Concannon has established the award winning Irish Organic Weedkiller product range.

Maths lecturers from Institutes of Technology across Ireland are to attend a national mathematics conference hosted by Galway-Mayo Institute

The value placed on teachers in Ireland seems to be downgrading all the time.

Fine Gael party leader, Enda Kenny TD, along with members of his front bench have outlined the core elements of the party’s ‘5-point plan to get Ireland working’. The plan is designed to create jobs, reform the health system, fix the budget crisis, make Government smaller and more cost effective and put the burden on politicians first.

Some of Mayo’s General Election candidates were left frustrated on Wednesday evening after a debate between them, due to be broadcast on RTÉ’s Radio 1 Drivetime show, didn’t make the airwaves.

An integrated approach to economic development in the west is vital if the region is to reach its potential, that is according to acting CEO of Western Development Commission (WDC) Gillian Buckley.

The Tanaiste and Minister for Education and Skills, Mary Coughlan was in Kilkenny this week where she defended the government’s record on spending on education.

Deputy Phil Hogan has called on the Government to immediately adopt Fine Gael’s policy on broadband as new OECD figures reveal that Ireland is now bottom of the league in Europe in broadband speeds.

Serial entrepreneur, author and women in business expert Margaret Heffernan, who recently featured in Channel Four’s Secret Millionaire, will speak next week at a seminar in Galway on female entrepreneurship being organised by the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). The seminar will take place at the Clayton Hotel on Thursday May 6 at 6.30pm.

Activity in the 'black economy' is rising with some €340m lost every week in the economy while €3.4 billion bypasses the Revenue Commissioners every year, according to small and medium enterprise group, ISME.