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NUI Galway will be hosting a forum on sports on Saturday June 28 as part of the university’s engagement process with alumni and the public.

Premiership football team Newcastle United is the latest elite squad to recruit the services of ORRECO, a Sligo-based-company co-owned by a Galway scientist that provides a pioneering ‘bio-analytics’ service that helps athletes optimise performance and reduce the number of training days lost to illness and injury.

A company based in IT Sligo’s Innovation Centre which provides an applied bio marker (Blood and Saliva) testing service for elite athletes around the world, has signed a contract with the Irish Institute of Sport. ORRECO will work with the cream of Ireland’s high performance athletes, including many who are bound for London 2012.

Preliminary work is to start today [Friday] on the Olympic standard indoor sports arena at AIT, which is expected to cost in the region of €10.5 million.