Minister for Agriculture Simon Coveney is leading a five-day trade mission to West Africa this week. More than 40 companies, as well as delegates from Enterprise Ireland, Bord Bia and Sustainable Food Systems Ireland take part in the trip which covers three major cities across Nigeria and Ghana.

Innovation Showcase will take place at Convention Centre Dublin on Tuesday 8th December 2015. It is a networking event which brings together all of the State funded R&D supports available to industry. Registration is now open to people from business, science and research communities.

The Enterprise Europe Network announced a new partnership with 31 Local Enterprise Offices in Ireland. 

PMD Solutions, a medtech company based in Cork, will receive €4.2 million in funding from the latest round of Horizon 2020 SME Instrument to develop a new respiratory monitoring device to improve patient outcomes.

Successful implementation of Plan for Donegal, Sligo, Leitrim, Cavan, Monaghan and Louth would see creation of 28,000 extra jobs in the region.