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Local business people value the airport’s part in their success and are keen to see it growing, they tell Siobhán Cronin    

THE latest CSO Live Register figures indicate a further drop in the numbers of people signing on the dole, but ISME, the Irish Small and Medium Enterprises Association, has pointed to an underlying slowdown in job creation, which it claims is due to fresh obstacles being put in place by the government that are discouraging employers from taking on more people.

FOCUS Ireland is calling on business leaders in Cork to sign up for its Shine A Light Night and sleep rough for one night to raise vital funds to combat and prevent family homelessness.

More than 450 young entrepreneurs around the country, aged between 18 and 30, are set to benefit from the September bootcamps, as part of Ireland's Best Young Entrepreneur competition

BUSINESS owners in the Beara Peninsula have expressed their frustration with Eircode, the new postcode system, which was officially launched earlier this week.

BRYAN Moore has been awarded the Clonakilty Agricultural College Best Farm Business Plan prize of 500, sponsored by AIB.

Opportunistic thieves who robbed low-hanging Eircom wires have put an antiquarian book business in jeopardy.

Clonakilty Bank of Ireland branch hosted an agri-business seminar in Fernhill House Hotel on Tuesday evening under the theme of 'Preparing for growth, planning for success'.

With a major re-surfacing and drainage scheme costing €7m having begun in Clonaklity this week, the chairman of Clonaklity Chamber of Commerce has said that despite the potential upheaval to a section of the town, Clonakilty will be open for business.