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Full coverage: Galway

$40bn sensor maker TE Connectivity has shifted its HQ to Ireland

The US-listed company, which owns a medical device plant in Galway, moved its incorporation – and tax residence – from Switzerland to Ireland this week.

Jonathan Keane
30th Sep, 2024 - 3 min read

Xerotech has raised €44m in Ireland. Now it’s turning to international investors

The heavy-duty battery pack maker has seen its revenue more than double in the last year and now plans to raise up to €30 million in additional capital to expand further in the US.

Jonathan Keane
6th Sep, 2024 - 3 min read

Paul Flynn: The All-Ireland final is the purest sensation, with the fans as close to the players’ emotions as they’ll ever be

Most players and teams work on some version of self-talk and visualisation exercises these days but, before your first final, there is a fine line between visualisation and dreaming.

Paul Flynn
27th Jul, 2024 - 7 min read

Bluedrop Medical has raised €10.5m from heavyweight backers. It is now being sued by a US rival over alleged patent infringement

Podimetrics filed a complaint against the Galway medtech start-up in the US, claiming its device for scanning diabetics' feet violates its patents.

Jonathan Keane
4th Jul, 2024 - 3 min read

The “sweet spot”: How CitySwift raised €7m to double in size

Founded in 2016 in Galway, the bus technology company has just closed a new funding round. It plans to double its headcount to over 100 people as it grows in Britain and internationally.

Tom Lyons
1st Feb, 2024 - 3 min read

Comer brothers’ vehicle loses Galway residential-zoned land tax appeal

Locals are pushing for redevelopment of the long-vacant site of the former Corrib Great Southern Hotel. An Bord Pleanála documents show they may be waiting for some time more.

Niall Sargent
8th Nov, 2023 - 3 min read

The five-star sale: Fattal Hotel Group in talks to acquire Galway’s G Hotel

Built by a schoolteacher turned developer and kitted out by a milliner to the royals, the G Hotel is emblematic of Celtic Tiger ambition. Now it is on the cusp of being sold by its Irish owners to an Israeli billionaire.

Rosanna Cooney
18th May, 2023 - 2 min read

Having failed to secure a new investor, Slendertone has collapsed into liquidation

The High Court has appointed a liquidator to Galway-based wearable technology company Bio-Medical Research, the maker of Slendertone. The business had been in examinership since March but had failed to find a new investor.

Ian Kehoe
2nd Jun, 2022 - 2 min read

Buses in the cloud: How a pair of Longford schoolfriends grew to modernise New York’s public transport

Six years on from founding CitySwift, Brian O’Rourke and Alan Farrelly explain how they developed AI to optimise bus fleets, sold it to the UK’s major operators and are now going international – having raised funds from A-list investors including Ryanair’s founding family along the way.

Thomas Hubert
31st Jan, 2022 - 8 min read
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