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Galway-based company CF Tooling opened a €7 million production facility in China last week to serve a major global contract with IBM.

The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Brendan Smith TD, this week announced that the Philippines had removed the ban on the importation of Irish EU beef.

Niño is slumped on the floor of the bamboo hut. Legs crossed and arms folded. Every once in a while he dips his hand into the pocket of his stained, smelly t-shirt and brandishes a bird feather. He waves it about half heartedly and glances out the half open door to the world outside.

Galway band Apartment 44 have just released their debut single ‘Circles’ and all proceeds will be donated to the Preda charity.

As the September trip to Sarajevo edges closer the Galway & District League Ladies team continue their diligent preparations with a charity function to help enslaved chidlren in the Philippines.

Galway businessman John Flaherty, founder of C&F Group, received Ireland’s coveted business award when he was named as the 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® at a ceremony last week.

Galway businessman John Flaherty, founder of C&F Group, received Ireland’s coveted business award when he was named as the 2008 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year® at a ceremony last week. Mr Flaherty was first announced as winner of the international category before receiving the overall title, which was presented by the Tánaiste Mary Coughlan, Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment.

A number of Galway politicians have called on the Tánaiste to provide a replacement industry and retraining for the 180 workers who will lose their jobs when the US-owned Cigna health care company pulls out of Loughrea.

The Little Sisters of the Assumption will hold a fundraising night on Saturday May 16 at the Greyhound Stadium, College Road, at 7pm.

The Galway Filipino Irish Community will offer a memorial Mass for the late former President Corazon Aquino of the Philippines, known to Filipinos as Tita Cory, on August 16 in the Abbey Church, at 3.30pm.