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Grá Chocolates, who are supported by Local Enterprise Office (LEO) Galway, were winners at this year’s National Enterprise Awards, taking home the Best in the West Region Award.

A journey to the ‘Big Apple’ was most certainly an occasion to remember for Moate Community School students, Meabh O Shea, Evie Nugent, Eva Donlon, whose global award winning Junk Kouture fashion creation #TagMe received an invitation to participate in the International Women’s Forum which celebrated 50 years of women changing the world.

Galway’s own Led Zeppelin worshippers, No Stairway, will play arguably some of the greatest hard rock and blues ever recorded for an all-ages audience on Saturday, May 18, at 3.30pm.

Joseph Owens lived in Glenamaddy with his wife, who was born Annie M Tuohy. They had three children, Dick, Mary, and her twin Joseph (born February 4, 1912), who was known to one and all as Josie. The father died very young. Annie remarried, this time to a man named Doorly, and in 1922, the family bought a four-bay four-storey early 19th century house in Lower Dominick Street from Nora O’Donnell and moved to Galway. Annie was a busy woman, she opened a drapery shop where she designed clothes, made them and sold them in her shop, and she kept lodgers upstairs, all as she was rearing her children.

The GSPCA, Bremeny School for Dogs and Briarhill Vet Clinic have come together to try to tackle how we approach behavioural problems with dogs. Together, they strongly believe in early prevention of behavioural problems rather than dealing with them as they arise. A stitch in time saves nine, and also makes for a happier pup.

Athlone based Specsavers duo, Optometrist Director Keith McCallion and Ophthalmic Director Kate Kelly recently played a crucial role in supporting 2,414 individuals living in Kolkata’s street and slum communities in India.

Peadar O’Dowd’s credentials for writing about Galway were impeccable. One of four children, Nono, Willie, Martin and Peadar, born to their parents John and Bridget, he grew up in Bohermore and was always grateful for the fact. He lived his life there and throughout that life would celebrate the area and its people in hundreds of articles and interviews he published in various newspapers and journals.

QOLA is a west of Ireland-based seller and fitter of high-class external structures which allow you to enjoy your garden even in the most miserable of days.

iSupply has become the first print and signage company in Galway City to be awarded the ISO standard for environmental sustainability.