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Retail Excellence has written to Damien English, the Minister of State for Employment Affairs and Retail, requesting the Government to step in and offer support for retailers who are struggling to pay commercial rents.

ANYONE WHO was involved in the Galway city music scene - either as a musician or as a fan - throughout the noughties, will have come across Bushy, aka Kenneth Coyne, and his band The Brno Chairs.

COVID-19 may have rendered Galway's summer festival season inert, but the city and its festivals are too resilient to be kept down forever, so for the first time in its 43 year history, the arts festival moves to the autumn.

Local Enterprise Office Galway has announced that additional funding has been approved for the hugely successful Trading Online Voucher.

The recently launched Restart Grant Plus will help businesses in Roscommon and Galway reopen and will help local people get back to work, Fine Gael Senator, Aisling Dolan, has reflected.

If the pandemic has changed your opinion on job security or working from home, here are seven essential professions you might want to consider.

Connemara native and well known GP, Dr Maitiú Ó Tuathail, Medical Director of Heroes-Aid, has gained international media attention after posting a video on social media to debunk the myth that face masks lowers the wearer’s oxygen levels. Dr Ó Tuathail posted a video of himself to his Twitter page wearing six face masks while connected to a monitor displaying no change in his oxygen levels, to demonstrate that face masks have no effect on a wearer’s blood oxygen levels.

A surge in COVID-19 cases in Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city may take weeks to subside despite the imposition of lockdown protocol.

Martina O'Connor