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Galway will be well represented at the 2024 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™ Awards which will take place on Thursday 28 November in Powerscourt Hotel, Co Wicklow.

Galway’s Suil Pharma walked away with this year’s ‘Special Award’ at InterTradeIreland’s all-island Seedcorn Investor Readiness Competition, receiving a cash prize of €10,000. This is presented each year to the best venture stemming from a university spinout or a recognised support programme. Suil Pharma, based in Rosscahill, Galway, research and develop innovative solutions focusing on vision and hearing.

Leaving Cert students have never had a wider choice of options.

Network Ireland has established a virtual branch to make its services available to women in business who are currently outside the reach of its seventeen in-person Branches. The organisation, which offers mentoring and professional development opportunities, as well as peer-to-peer support is inviting women throughout the island of Ireland and beyond to avail of the new online resource.

University of Galway has recognised 29 students for their sports talent and has awarded them all with sports scholarships. A further 57 athletes from previous years were also recognised at the ceremony.

Known nationally as the City of the Tribes, family has been at the core of Galway's development for centuries transforming what was once a small fishing town into the beating heart of the west of Ireland. So, who were the 14 influential families who laid the groundwork for Galway's success?

by Paddy Cullivan

As Ireland celebrates a century of diplomatic ties with the United States, University of Galway, Queen’s University Belfast and University College Cork are partnering with the Irish Institute of Boston College to explore US-Ireland relations and peacebuilding.

13 new businesses have been awarded the Ireland’s Best Managed Companies (BMC) accolade at the 16th annual awards programme. This year, Deloitte recognised 129 indigenous companies at the awards, representing 28 of the 32 counties across the island of Ireland.

The 43rd annual Milwaukee Irish Fest – the largest celebration of Irish culture and heritage in the United States – took place recently on the shores of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. The four-day festival – which has a huge audience of more than 130,000 visitors – was an ideal opportunity for Tourism Ireland to showcase the island of Ireland as a superb holiday destination to our important Diaspora audience and people with an interest in Ireland, inspiring them to come and visit.