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The Citroen C5 Aircross Commercial and Mitsubishi L200 have been named category winners within the Continental Tyres Irish Van of the Year 2020 competition.

African women and women of African descent will gather in Galway this weekend to hold discussions on how racism and cancer affect women’s mental health, and to honour various women and organisations.

Eilís Dillon was born on March 7, 1920, in Galway. Her parents were Professor Tom Dillon and Geraldine Plunkett, who was a sister of Joseph Mary Plunkett. They were very republican and were forced to move a number of times. They lived for a time in Daingean House and later in Barna for a few years. Eilís went to Barna National School where she became fluent at Irish, later to the Presentation, and later still to the Ursuline Convent in Sligo. She worked for a while in the hotel business.

BEGINNERS AND intermediate creative writing classes at Galway Technical Institute, hosted by Kevin Higgins and Susan Millar DuMars, take place in March and booking is open now.

SLEEPING BEAUTY, one of the finest and most loved of all ballets, will be performed in Galway this weekend by The Royal Moscow Ballet, and feature soloists from the world renowned Bolshoi Ballet.

CALM WITH Horses, the new film from the BAFTA and Sundance Festival award nominee Nick Rowland, shot at numerous locations around Galway city and county, opens in cinemas on Friday March 13.

PADDY HANNA has never been afraid to embrace the eccentric and off-kilter side of his creativity on his solo albums, and in Autre Monde songwriter Padraig Cooney, he has met a kindred spirit.

FLEABAG, THE one-woman show from the brilliant Phoebe Waller-Bridge that inspired the award-winning BBC sit-com, will be screened at the Pálás Cinema for International Women's Day.

A new 50km charity cycle has been organised by a Ballina man as a “fitting” way of thanking cancer nurses who cared for his late mother.

Two weeks after winning Ireland’s 15th EuroMillions jackpot, a large Mayo family syndicate has finally come forward to National Lottery headquarters in Dublin this week to collect their truly life-changing €17 million prize which they won on Tuesday, February 11.