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McInerneys SuperValu of Loughrea has beaten off stiff competition from hundreds of excellent Irish businesses in its bid to make the elite list of finalists The National Q Mark Awards, which are held annually by the Excellence Ireland Quality Association (EIQA).

A €50,000 prize fund is on offer to Galway-based entrepreneurs in the sixth year of an innovative competition aimed at encouraging entrepreneurship and rewarding local enterprise. The sccul enterprise awards, launched on Monday night in the Institute for Lifecourse and Society, NUI Galway, is an initiative of community based company SCCUL Enterprises Ltd. 

Sonas Athlone’s catering supervisor, Marie Gaynor, has been shortlisted for the National Nursing Homes Catering Awards. Ms Gaynor is one of three finalists in the Catering and Nutrition Award category. 

Head on over to the Prince Bar this week, for musical entertainment, bar food, a great atmosphere, and maybe a cocktail or two before the crazy season gets going!

Amber stays true to its motto of ‘Definitely something different’, providing customers not only with the self-healing and meditation tools such as singing bowls, crystals, and salt lamps, but also offering expert advice.

FIVE Gala convenience stores from throughout Mayo have been awarded the Gold Standard for excellence in retail at the 2015 Gala Annual Conference and BEST Awards, which took place last week at The Malton Hotel, Killarney.

Freshen up your jazz life with GoGo Penguin, performing at the Linenhall Arts Centre in Castlebar on Thursday October 29 at 8pm as part of a Music Network tour.

AIDAN STRANGEMAN, the 2014 So You Think You’re Funny Award winner - an award previously won by Dylan Moran, Tommy Tiernan and David O’ Doherty - will headline the Róisín Dubh Comedy Clubh, in the venue's upstairs bar, tomorrow at 8.30pm.

A WOMAN only 3’ 6” tall, who calls herself, the Ferrari of comedy, "low to the ground and kinda racy"; a man known as the 'Whisky Comedian'; and The Two Johns, a duo of the extraordinary Terry Alderton and musician Johnny Spurling - Galway better get ready for them all.

THE BABORÓ International Children's Festival swings into action next week and a must-see highlight will be the world premiere of CoisCéim’s The Wolf and Peter, an exciting new dance interpretation of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf, one of the most popular pieces of music ever written.