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The Irish Government is committed to supporting digital creative industries across the West and North-West. That was the message delivered by Alan Dillon TD, Minister of State for Employment, Small Businesses and Retail & Circular Economy, when he addressed 400 delegates at the EDGE26 Creative Economy Summit in Galway on Thursday afternoon.

A landmark report will be launched today (Thursday) at Ireland’s inaugural EDGE26 Creative Economy Summit. The study highlights how the West and North-West of Ireland has built a strong and rapidly growing digital creative industries sector over the past decade. It goes on to note, however, that the next phase of growth will require more coordinated investment and supports, tailored to how digital creative enterprises actually operate.

Rivalries will be renewed on Saturday night when Galway United face Sligo Rovers in The Showgrounds.

Galway United Women continue to blaze a trail in the SSE Airtricity Women’s Premier Division. They sit on top of the table with five wins out of five.

After somehow coming up short against the league’s bottom team, Galway United host its top team tomorrow night in Eamonn Deacy Park.

The AIM Centre is stepping up its efforts to strengthen connections with manufacturing and services companies in the MedTech and Life Sciences sectors with the opening of its new base in Galway.

With the Connacht championship now firmly on the horizon, attention inevitably turns to what Galway’s starting XV might look like. League football often raises as many questions as answers, and that certainly seems to be the case this year.

An Irish-born priest whose life transformed the care of vulnerable children has taken a significant step on the path to sainthood. Fr Edward Flanagan, who was born in the west of Ireland, has been declared “venerable” by Pope Leo XIV—a recognition by the Catholic Church that he lived a life of heroic virtue. The declaration marks a major milestone in the long process towards canonisation, leaving him two verified miracles away from being named a saint.

The Western Development Commission (WDC) has announced the nine companies selected to participate in the new Landing Studio at CREW Galway, a pilot initiative designed to support creative enterprises and innovation-driven businesses from across the West and Northwest of Ireland.

John Caulfield was in combative form when he faced the media in advance of what is broadly expected to be a difficult campaign for Galway United in the top flight.