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Western Management Centre, Galway, is launching a new QQI accredited PR course. The programme is aimed at participants with an interest in PR, those who are working in the area but want to broaden their knowledge, or self-employed individuals who want to learn PR techniques to promote their own businesses in a cost effective way.

Q: I love the theatre. From an early age, I was on stage, and, in my 20s, I still take part in plays with my local amateur drama group. Alas, I’m not destined for a career in the West End. I did business studies in college and I have recently seen a job advertised as a marketing person with a theatre production company. I think I’d love to do it, and I know I’d be good at it. I have loads of ideas already for promoting the company in all sorts of ways. But I am worried about the whole thing of mixing work and pleasure. In other words, whither your hobby if your hobby becomes your work? Any thoughts? (JC, email).

Some two thousand students will receive awards from GMIT during the institute’s annual graduation ceremonies, which take place in Galway and Mayo this month.

Minister for Communications Pat Rabbitte has announced the appointment of eight members to the Board of TG4 including a new chairperson for the Board and among the appointees is Press & Information Officer at NUI Galway, Michelle Ní Chróinín.

Students from Mayo are among those who will benefit from the announcement by The Open College that eLearning will be available to all its students from the middle of the year.

GMIT Hotel School students have won an impressive 24 medals — eight gold, eight silver, and eight bronze — in the national Panel of Chefs CATEX competition, held in Dublin recently.

With a dedicated hotel school offering degree programmes in everything from culinary arts to event management, and catering facilities that few can match, GMIT is probably the best place in the country from which to launch a successful career in the hospitality sector.

Local PR specialist Alma Feeley was recognised for her professional approach to business marketing when she was announced as a finalist in the recent Excellence in Female Entrepreneurship Awards.

Event management is a team of professional people who come together to create programmes that address the purpose, message or impression that their organisation or client is trying to communicate.

The Irish Academy of Public Relations has launched a programme of training courses for companies in the western region.