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Westport entrepreneurship expert and media commentator Olwen Dawe was one of four guest speakers at a Young Fine Gael seminar entitled Job Creation Creates Ireland’s Future at the Garret FitzGerald Summer School in Kilkenny last weekend.

Four Mayo winners have been selected in the JCI Mayo and Mayo Advertiser TOYP Awards in association with AIB Bank Claremorris, as follows — Aisling Neary, Dara Calleary, Darren Cawley, and Olwen Dawe, who will now go forward to the national awards.

Following this year’s Network Mayo Businesswomen of the Year awards, three Mayo women will be heading for Dublin Castle representing the county at the Network Ireland Businesswomen of the Year awards.

By 2016 Ireland will be the best small country in Europe in which to do business, according to An Taoiseach, Enda Kenny. At the SMEs Doing Business in Europe seminar in Knockranny House Hotel last weekend, delegates were addressed by An Taoiseach as well as the Minister for Small Business, John Perry, whose speeches echoed the need for people’s active involvement and support in the Government’s recovery plan. Ireland is “open for business” and requires participation from its people to make change happen.

A significant event for small and medium businesses considering doing business in Europe is taking place in Knockranny House Hotel, Westport on Saturday October 1. Entitled “SMEs Doing Business in Europe”, it is co-hosted by Network Mayo and the European Parliament's Information Office in Ireland. The event will be chaired by Marian Harkin, MEP. This half day event is free of charge but pre-registration is essential.

Striking the balance between mindfulness and management is key to business success, according to SME colleagues Be Rowland and Olwen Dawe. Both businesswomen are established in their own rights – Be runs Mindful Productivity and is a former life coach who now combines her coaching skills and her flair for design to produce a range of mindfully inspired posters and T-shirts which all carry a message. Dawe’s Irish Business Intelligence provides advice to start-ups and SMEs, as well as supporting enterprise projects, blogging, and writing on all things business-related.

Entrepreneur and founder of Irish Business Intelligence Olwen Dawe has been named as one of the new ambassadors for the Towns of Excellence programme, which has been officially launched in the west of Ireland. Towns of Excellence is a national initiative which has been set up to research, recognise and reward towns and businesses for achieving excellence in a variety of business disciplines including customer service. The Towns of Excellence Institute is committed to helping raise the bar for business standards in businesses and towns throughout Ireland. The process for registering is as simple as logging on to www.townsofexcellence.com.

Network Mayo announced the winners of its Businesswomen of the Year awards, which took place at the beautiful surroundings of Newport House, Newport, last Friday June 24.

Network Mayo’s March event, Business to Arts: Developing Creative Partnerships, will take place at 7.30pm on March 30 in the Claremorris Gallery.

On the centenary of International Women’s Day, Mayo’s businesswomen attended the Mayo County Enterprise Board / Network Mayo celebration at Knockranny House Hotel, in Westport. The event featured guest speaker, Susan Hayes (the Positive Economist).