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Funding of €2m has just been announced for a new three-year project to support the creative industries sector in the Western Region. Creative Momentum will support and connect creative enterprises across the west of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland. The €2m in funding has been secured from the EU’s Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) Interreg programme.

Funding of €2m has just been announced for a new three-year project to support the creative industries sector in the Western Region. Creative Momentum will support and connect creative enterprises across the West of Ireland, Northern Ireland, Sweden, Finland and Iceland.

Eircom has announced plans to significantly increase broadband speeds on its network in Ballina, Castlebar and Westport.

Mayo-based companies Eachtraí Uisce Teo and Portwest were two of a number of companies acknowledged for their contribution to enterprise and innovation across the island of Ireland. They were awarded Business Ambassador status by InterTradeIreland at a special event held in the Mansion House in Dublin. The event was hosted by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise, and Innovation, Richard Bruton.

SuperValu, Ireland’s leading community supermarket, has donated €100,000 to Focus Ireland. As part of SuperValu’s ongoing commitment to Irish communities, 14 cent from every 19 cent bag of carrots, net of Brussels sprouts, and melons sold in the days before Christmas 2013 were donated to Focus Ireland. All eight SuperValu stores across Mayo contributed to the campaign encouraging sales of carrots, Brussels sprouts, and melons in an effort to further enhance SuperValu’s charitable contribution to Focus Ireland.

July has heralded a new era for the further education and training sector in Westmeath.

The hospital group responsible for running public hospitals in Galway and Roscommon has cleared a waiting list of almost 14,000 inpatients over a nine month period.

LookWest.ie, the Western Development Commission’s (WDC) online guide to living, working, and doing business in Ireland’s western region, has been shortlisted for a Dot ie Net Visionary Award in the Best Use of Social Media category.

Innovative research commissioned by the Western Development Commission and carried out by researchers at NUI, Galway has highlighted the potential for a doubling of the workforce employed in the creative sector over the next 10 years.

The decline in property prices in Connaught/Donegal continues, but at a lesser pace than a year ago.