Western Development Commission
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Galway sports tech company selected as first participant in World Rugby trial
- Retail & Services
- November 19, 2019, 17:27
A Co Galway sports technology company has been selected as the first participant in a trial by World Rugby aiming to reduce the risk of head injuries (...)

Bluedrop Medical raises €1.2m in seed fund for diabetes device
- Technology
- September 19, 2019, 03:18
Irish medtech company Bluedrop Medical has secured €1.2 million in a seed investment round to bring the total raised by the start-up this year to €3.(...)

More midnight rural train links, committee recommends
- Politics
- July 17, 2019, 19:14
Commuter services should run between rural towns and urban areas from morning to midnight, an Oireachtas committee report on rural transport has recom(...)

Galway medtech company wins €3.6m funding
- Health & Pharma
- April 8, 2019, 14:19
A Galway-headquartered medical technology company has received €3.6 million in grant funding which will help it commercialise a device to treat a colo(...)

Six rural towns to get up to €100k for plans to woo more residents
- Politics
- October 11, 2018, 17:43
Six small towns in six different counties have been invited to suggest how they could become more attractive living spaces by Minister for Rural and C(...)

Galway start-up looking to treat joint pain raises €2.75m
- Health & Pharma
- July 7, 2018, 06:06
Loci Orthopaedics, a Galway-based medical devices start-up that has developed a new joint implant to treat arthritis, has raised €2.75 million in a se(...)

Neurent raises €9.3m to put paid to chronic runny noses
- Health & Pharma
- May 28, 2018, 06:02
An Irish company developing a breakthrough therapy for a common nasal condition has raised €9.3 million. Neurent Medical, based in Oranmore, Co Galwa(...)

Study of jobs in the west could help State plan for the future
- Economy
- May 18, 2018, 05:23
When developing future policy on spatial development, the National Planning Framework drew on past experience – a useful guide to what will work in th(...)

€8m investment in cinema ‘most appalling waste of public funds’
- Film
- March 29, 2018, 16:35
Public money has been used to build a bar, restaurant and cinema for a private company to make a profit, the Public Accounts Committee (Pac) has heard(...)

Sligo looks to future in wake of shop closures
- Irish News
- February 15, 2018, 20:29
Even as they were polishing the boardroom table in Sligo’s Institute of Technology in preparation for today’s much anticipated Cabinet meeting, news b(...)