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“Inspire Ireland” is an initiative designed to stimulate new business in Ireland. Following on from the hugely successful inaugural Irish Executives Summit held in Galway this September, Irish businesses at home and abroad have offered €150,000 worth of in-kind business services to the top three entries.

Two hundred experts and Irish business people from home and abroad are joining forces in Galway to learn about some of the most current and critical contributing factors to business growth.

Irish Executives is a 7,000 member virtual network on LinkedIn, the social media site for business people. Since its inception in 2008 by Galway-man John Keogh, a range of online comments debating the business affairs of Ireland has stretched from Ballsbridge to Bangkok and back again. This conversation is now moving from the virtual to reality with IrelandONE to IrelandWON, a gathering of Irish business people from home and abroad, in Galway at the Radisson Blu Hotel on September 15.

Coming to the Dean Crowe Theatre on Tuesday October 26 at 8pm is a breathtaking show of hits from Buddy and the boys. For 17 sensational years they have delighted audiences across the globe from Cardiff to California and Barking to Bangkok.

DRIFTING UNDER The Moon, published by Dedalus Press, is the second book by Westport’s Ger Reidy. Unlike most poets, Reidy has a proper job – he is a civil engineer with the Mayo County Council.

In the early 1990s the Mayos in Galway were getting so uppity that it was decided that action would be taken. It is believed that Seamus Keating, the legendary Galway city and county manager, and a Tipperary man to boot, was never slow in taking the hard decision. Exasperated by the controls exerted by the Mayos, their prestigious positions in all walks of life in the city, their swagger about the place, and the whingeing by the few Galwegians left on his staff at the unfairness of it all, one day he pressed the red button on his desk.

A young Galway woman has died tragically in a water accident in Vietnam just days after arriving in the country.

Following last year’s sell-out production of Titanic The Musical, award-winning Ballinrobe Musical Society are set to stage their 2009 production, the modern classic Chess in the auditorium of Ballinrobe Community School from Sunday February 1 to Saturday February 7.

Following last year’s sell-out production of Titanic The Musical, award-winning Ballinrobe Musical Society are set to stage their 2009 production, the modern classic Chess in the auditorium of Ballinrobe Community School from Sunday February 1 to Saturday February 7.

Galway airport management have said they are hugely concerned by An Bord Snip recommendations that all support, amounting to €17million, to Ireland’s six regional airports and regional air services is cut by 2011.