Business

The latest in a continuous stream of referenda in recent years is the Stability Treaty and, as the weeks pass, it becomes more and more obvious that stability is indeed at the heart of this referendum.
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CEO of 11890 and Stenics Media Nicola Byrne has been confirmed as the guest speaker for the upcoming Network Galway Business Women of the Year Awards. The annual event will take place in The Salthill Hotel on Friday 25 May and is sponsored by the Galway City and County Enterprise Board.
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Seven outstanding young people were honoured last week honoured by Junior Chamber International (JCI) Galway in the Harbour Hotel, as part of the search for the JCI Galway Outstanding Young Person of the Year for 2012.
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Online Marketing in Galway (OMiG) will host its second meeting on Tuesday 29 May at 7pm in the Harbour Hotel, where some of Galway’s elite business people and online marketing companies will attend a session that will include four guest speakers each offering their prospective on online marketing.
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The new SCCUL Mentors programme will provide advice and support for small business owners and emerging enterprises around Galway City and County, SCCUL Mentor Ivan McPhillips tells Lorraine O’Hanlon Officially launched last month by RTE Dragon Gavin Duffy, SCCUL Mentors is a mentoring initiative based at Ballybane Enterprise Centre that will see the expertise of leading business figures in Galway shared with new and existing small business owners.
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The Mayor of Galway City Hildegarde Naughton launched the Network Galway Business Women of the Year Awards on Friday evening in The Salthill Hotel. The Network Galway Business Women of the Year Awards will take place in The Salthill Hotel on Friday, 25 May and promise to be a spectacular affair.
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The European Stability Treaty is important to business in Galway. Galway Chamber believes, with our umbrella organisation Chambers Ireland, that the Treaty is designed to give increased stability in Ireland and to ensure that we never find ourselves in our current situation again.
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Airline Emirates is to return to Galway this Friday as part of a continuing recruitment drive for cabin crew. As a result of expansion within the company, Emirates requires extensive numbers of cabin crew and will hold an open day on Friday 11 May at the Harbour Hotel from 9am.
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Ireland West Airport Knock welcomed the inaugural flight from Dusseldorf in Germany by Europe’s largest airline Lufthansa over the weekend. The new service connects the West and North West of Ireland with Germany, the world's largest outbound market and the third largest source of visitors to the island of Ireland.
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Galway is now home to some of the most interesting and original restaurants in Ireland, food critic and new Galway Independent columnist Tom Doorley tells Lorraine O’Hanlon Mr Doorley feels that it is vital that eateries use local produce where they are doing a good job, while it’s important for consumers to bear that in mind too.
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Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink! As the controversy over the water charge continues, it is worth looking at the situation that prevails in other countries and how it could work best here.
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Last week Galway Chamber welcomed new jobs for Galway and this week we again welcome the 115 jobs announced by An Taoiseach on Monday at Cisco Systems in Oranmore.   The jobs are part of a €26 million investment by the company at its Galway research and development facility over the next two years.
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National recruitment company Matrix Recruitment Group has announced the opening of their new office in Galway Technology Park, Parkmore. Matrix currently employs 15 staff throughout its four branches in Galway, Athlone, Carlow, and Waterford and plans to hire another two consultants to join the existing team in Galway.
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Paul Gill, Managing Director of The Claregalway Hotel, has been elected Vice President of the Irish Hotels Federation (IHF). Mr Gill has previously served as chairman of the IHF’s Galway branch for four years.
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