Yorkshire native Sean Rowland new head of JCI Galway

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

The 2011 President of Junior Chamber International (JCI) Galway is Sean Rowland, Corporate Sales Manager for the Harbour Hotel and local pianist. JCI Galway is part of an international organisation focusing on leadership, entrepreneurship and active citizenship. JCI has a strong focus on creating young leaders, achieved by running many worthwhile projects which add to and enhance community life in Galway.

Your Career, Your Choices - Don’t expect employers to ‘show you the money?’

Thu, Feb 17, 2011

Q. I am hoping to finish my business degree this year. Apart from working in a local shop during the summer, the only work experience I have involved spending six months at a major multi-national IT company as part of my college course. I wasn’t even paid, but I learned a great deal. Should I present this as work experience in my CV?

Fancy a valuable package for the cupla focail?

Thu, Feb 10, 2011

Does your business or any business you know deserve to be recognised and rewarded for its efforts in promoting the Irish language. Then make sure that you nominate it or yourself for Galway’s best bilingual business awards competition.

Galway businesses feted for customer service

Thu, Feb 10, 2011

Two Galway businessmen had good cause for celebration last week when the SUBWAY® stores that they respectively own in Tuam and Loughrea were rated among the top 10 SUBWAY® stores in Ireland for cleanliness and customer service.

Seamus Hynes, who owns the SUBWAY® store at Bishop Street in Tuam, and Chris Talbot who owns another store in Loughrea, and their staff came very close to seeing their respective stores named as the winner of the SUBWAY® chain’s coveted Store of the Year 2010 award having scored highly in a series of monthly inspections.

Atlantic College - a recipe for success

Thu, Feb 10, 2011

“The secret of success is to be ready when your opportunity comes,” these were the wise words of Benjamin Disraeli, a former British prime minister and the first Earl of Beaconsfield, words that Atlantic College founder John Daly has taken to heart and used as inspiration to build what began as a small language school into an internationally recognised success story.

Galway employees could ‘win a day off work’

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

With January being officially Ireland’s most depressing month, what better way to remedy the winter blues than the prospect of a ‘Duvet Day’ for a great cause. To help support the work of Ireland’s almost 275,000 family carers, broadcasters and patrons of The Carers Association, Marty Whelan and Mary Kennedy, have teamed up to launch Ireland’s first ‘Win a Day Off Work’ campaign. The campaign offers Galway employees the chance to win a ‘Duvet Day’ while raising vital funds for family carers.

Neopost is introduced as the official distributor for GBC’s Print Finishing Division in Ireland

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Neopost, one of Ireland’s leading providers of end-to end-mailroom solutions has been appointed as the official GBC distributor for its Print Finishing Solutions range of products in Ireland.

Footfall entrance matting and carpet tiles

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Footfall is Ireland’s leading supplier of fixed entrance matting systems to industry and the high street. The Company provides a range of modular mats which can be fitted wall to wall in entrance lobbies, within matwells or surface mounted with ramped safety edging. Its modular mats are fitted by trained installers and carry a five year wear warranty.

New accountancy practice opens in city

Thu, Feb 03, 2011

Regina Cahill, registered Auditor, Accountant and Tax Consultant has opened accountancy practice at 7 Mainguard Street, Galway.

JCI to welcome new members at open night

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

Have fun. Give something back to the community. Meet new people. Explore your interests and passions. Enhance your skills, career options and your CV. These are just some of the myriad benefits of joining JCI Galway tonight (Thursday).

Galwayman is new head of Business School at AIT

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

A Moycullen native has been appointed as the new Head of the Business School at Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT).

Eoin Langan takes up the post, having served two terms as the Head of Department of Accounting and Business Computing and as the Head of Academic Development and Administration at the institute.

GMIT civil engineering students go hi-tech

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

Civil Engineering students in Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology are to benefit from the purchase of new hi-tech land surveying equipment and a new Global Positioning System (GPS) station, purchased by the GMIT Department of Building and Civil Engineering.

Improve your self-esteem and performance in GMIT

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

Bookings are now being taken for the Introduction to NLP for Self Esteem and Performance course commencing on Feb 7 and the new Advanced NLP for Self Esteem and Performance course commencing on Feb 8 in Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (GMIT).

Deadline looms for Irish grads to apply for EU internships

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

University graduates should consider applying for one of the 650 places under the winter traineeship scheme in the European Commission, the deadline for which is Monday.

This is the view of Labour councillor Niall McNelis. He said with so few jobs available for Irish graduates in the current climate, “this scheme is a fantastic opportunity to gain valuable experience at the heart of the European Union”.

Springtime for GMIT's Individual Excellence

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

Individual Excellence, a course in personal and career development which will start in GMIT on Monday February 7, promises to put a pep in your step for eight weeks.

NUIG postgraduate fair to showcase more than four hundred programmes

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

The annual NUI Galway Postgraduate Open Day is to take place on Wednesday February 2, from 12.30 to 4.30pm in the Bailey Allen Hall, Áras na Mac Léinn.

Artspace to represent Galway at major international art fair

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

Artspace, the Galway artist collective, will be representing Ireland at the Supermarket Art Fair which will take place in Stockholm in February.

Deputy mayor’s casting vote blocks controversial Westside rezoning

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

A controversial rezoning, which city planners said would be “hugely detrimental to the city centre” was only stopped from being passed by the deputy mayor’s casting vote.

Conneely keeps shtum at meeting

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

The audacious and controversial character of Councillor Padraig Conneely was tempered at was supposed to be the second meeting of the City council to discuss amendments to the draft city development plan 2011 to 2017.

Monday evening’s meeting was one of two to discuss the plan; however the first was abandoned after Councillor Conneely continued to interrupt the meeting, describing actions taken against him to be “a farce”.

Oil be back — Sweeney’s back with The Oil Company

Thu, Jan 27, 2011

THE character Daniel Plainview in the film There Will be Gold said “I'm an oilman, ladies and gentlemen, I just like to think of myself as an oilman.”

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