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Connacht businesses are in the running for this year’s Irish Business Design Challenge challenge which focuses on sustainable design solutions and innovation in business.

Businesses from Athlone were afforded the opportunity to meet buyers from all over the world as part of the Local Enterprise Showcase at Showcase 2023 which took place in the RDS recently.

Some of Galway’s best up and coming craft and design businesses will be part of over 100 companies from across Ireland who will get a chance to meet with buyers from all over the world as part of the Local Enterprise Showcase at the 2023 Showcase event in the RDS, running from the 22-24th January.

The Design & Crafts Council Ireland has announced an exciting new partnership with Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology that will see the creation of two new degree courses for students.

An innovative project in county Galway has been awarded funding to create a beautiful new bench that draws on a local town’s rich lace-making heritage. The Headford Lace Project is one of nine community and craft ventures across the county that have being chosen as part a Sláintecare-funded collaboration between the Design & Crafts Council Ireland (DCCI) and Healthy Ireland.

Showcase Ireland, Ireland’s Creative Expo, will pivot to a new innovative Virtual Showroom format from January 25 to 29, in response to the limitations imposed by the Covid-19 pandemic.

EirGrid, Ireland’s electricity grid operator, last Friday announced plans to replace the Grid West electricity transmission project with a smaller-scale development. The Grid West project was proposed in 2012 to connect large amounts of renewable energy to the grid. The decision to replace it was made due to the lower than expected amounts of wind generation in the north Connacht region.