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Now in its sixth year, Mayo Ideas Week has become a valuable part of the business calendar and this year runs from today, Friday September 25 to Friday October 2. This is a wonderful opportunity for Mayo based businesses of all sizes to learn, be challenged, and network effectively. Mayo Ideas Week is a series of entrepreneurship, idea generation, and business events hosted by the development and enterprise support agencies in Mayo. Most events are free of charge but require pre-registration.

Now in its sixth year, Mayo Ideas Week has become a valuable part of the business calendar and this year runs from Friday September 25 to Friday October 2. This is a wonderful opportunity for Mayo based businesses of all sizes to learn, be challenged, and network effectively. Mayo Ideas Week is a series of entrepreneurship, idea generation, and business events hosted by the development and enterprise support agencies in Mayo. Most events are free of charge but require pre-registration.

More than 500 volunteers from units of the Order of Malta Ireland Ambulance Corps will descend on Athlone on September 18 and 19 to showcase their lifesaving skills as part of the All-Ireland First Aid Competitions.

A recent survey of national school teachers in Ireland provides clear evidence of the benefits of entrepreneurship and business skills programmes in the primary school curriculum.   More than 330 schools were surveyed to provide a comprehensive overview of the benefits of junior entrepreneurship for primary school pupils.

TWENTY-NINE years later, the route directions still resonate: “You drive as far as Malin Head and reverse 10 mile”. These were given to my brother Tom in 1986 when he received an invitation to what turned out to be one of the more singular book launches he ever attended.

Senator Lorraine Higgins today said that Sinn Fein should use whatever influence it has with the IRA to ensure that monies left over when they allegedly disbanded is distributed to deserving causes both in Northern Ireland and the Rep of Ireland.

GALWAY ADVERTISER arts editor Kernan Andrews, poet Kate Ennals, broadcaster Clara Rose Thornton, and writers Susan Lanigan, and Ruth Aylett, will all read at the Over The Edge Writers’ Gathering in The Kitchen, Galway City Museum, on Friday September 11 at 8pm.

RACE THE Flux, the Galway indie/alternative quartet, who GoldenPlec have described as being as if "Queens Of The Stone Age collaborated with ASIWYFA", and who won critical acclaim for their Olympians EP earlier this year, will kick off the Citóg nights in the Róísín Dubh.