Galway Bay fm newsroom - 79 new jobs were created by Galway's Local Enterprise Office last year - down slightly on the figure of 87 for 2015.
The 2016 LEO annual jobs survey has been published by Jobs Minister Mary Mitchell O’Connor.
It shows that the LEO office which serves the city and county currently has 243 clients - and in 2016, these clients supported almost 1000 jobs.
Local Enterprise Offices or LEOs were established to provide a ‘first-stop shop’ system of enterprise supports to start-ups and small businesses across the country.
