Full coverage: Galway

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.