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Twenty five County Galway businesses will receive a New Year bonanza tonight when they will be honoured at the SCCUL Enterprise Awards. The awards ceremony which will take place in the Bailey Allen Hall, NUI Galway tonight will celebrate enterprise in six different categories: Agriculture and Food, Arts Tourism & Sport, Business Services, Consumer Goods and Services, ICT and Social Enterprise.

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, chaired the first Regional Enterprise Forum in Athlone last week.

Registration is now open for MeetWest 2014, the largest business networking event in the West of Ireland this year. Hosted by Galway City Council, MeetWest 2014 is a two-day business networking forum taking place at the Galway Bay Hotel, Salthill, Galway on November 20th and 21st 2014.

The Chambers of Ennis, Galway, Limerick and Shannon, which represent 1,355 members with a combined employment level of 45,700, have welcomed the recent signing into law of the Shannon Airport Bill by President Michael D Higgins.

CIPD Midlands Region and Collins McNicholas will host a major employment law breakfast briefing on Wednesday January 22 in the Sheraton Athlone Hotel.

The IDA, the body responsible for attracting foreign companies to Ireland, has said it cannot be expected to “corral a company to go to a particular part of the country unless it will make sense for their business”.

The IDA, the body responsible for attracting foreign companies to Ireland, has said it can't be expected to 'corral a company to go to a particular part of the country unless it will make sense for their business.'

The promotion of enterprise activities, maintaining and creating jobs is at the top of the agenda for the new board of Údarás na Gaeltachta which has been awarded a total of €18.6 million from the Exchequer for capital and current expenditure.

Jim Murren, Former IDA Regional Manager, West Region, has been appointed Chairman of Specialised Sterile Environments SSE.

The average rent nationwide in the first quarter of 2012 was largely unchanged from a year previously (down 0.1 per cent), standing at €812, according to the latest report published by Ireland’s property website, Daft.ie. However in Mayo, rents in early 2012 were 3.9 per cent lower than a year previously, with the average rent now at €557, a fall of 22 per cent from the peak. In Connacht overall rents fell by 1.5 per cent in the first three months of 2012.