Following an address to Network Galway members in relation to the Volvo Ocean Race, the organisation is encouraging its members to take advantage of the opportunities that the Volvo Ocean Race will provide for businesspeople in the city.

The MyHome.ie national property price barometer has shown that price drops in Galway's property market are significantly greater than the national average decline of 0.2 per cent.

Bank of Ireland / Macra na Feirme National Leadership Award winner, Thomas Quirke from Abbeyknockmoy, is pictured receiving his award from (LtoR): Catherine Buckley, Macra national president; David O'Neill, Bank of Ireland Business Banking; and Mary Davis, chairperson of the Taskforce on Active Citizenship and CEO of Special Olympics Ireland, who was the guest speaker at the event.

Galway-based print company Castle Print has been nominated for an award as part of the James McNaughton Review 2007 – the revered international acknowledgment of excellence within the print industry. The winning company will be announced in late March 2008 during a luxury weekend of activities for all nominees, at the world-renowned and luxurious five star Gleneagles Hotel in Scotland.

Galway-based food connoisseur Seamus Sheridan has been appointed to safefood's new advisory board. Mr Sheridan, who co-owns a cheese and artisan food business, joins 11 other new board members, including a chef, a restaurateur and a horticulturist.

Dan O' Hara's farmhouse B&B in Clifden is one of just five Galway eateries to be included in food critic Lucinda O'Sullivan's Little Black Book of Places to Eat and Stay 2008.

The 2008 season of BAH events kicks off in the Veranda Lounge in the Radisson SAS Hotel on Thursday 28 February 28 at 6pm. All members and guests are welcome. Light refreshments will be served. This is a networking event.

Galway based entrepreneur and founder of furniture.ie Richard Moyles has collected the accolade for Best Commercial Website 2008 at the sixth annual Digital Media Awards, held last weekend in Crowne Plaza Hotel, Dublin.

Gaillimh le Gaeilge, the organisation for promoting Irish in business, yesterday announced the finalists of the Gradam Sheosaimh Uí Ógartaigh 2007.

How often have you had a great idea for a business but have not known how to make it reality? Galway Chamber has come together with the main support agencies in Galway to help people take the next step from 'crazy idea' to 'potential profit'.