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On March 29 exactly 50 years ago, Volkswagen started series production of the Golf in Wolfsburg, Germany.

On March 29 exactly 50 years ago, Volkswagen began production of its Golf in Wolfsburg, Germany. The successor to the legendary Beetle, the Golf would become the most successful Volkswagen and best-selling European car of all time.

Athlone native, Carmel Feeney, has compiled a collection, in book form, of her photographs of the Friary in Athlone.

Though time may have stood still for many Galway United fans since their play-off exit to Waterford FC in November, the landscape has shifted significantly since.

Just over 12 days ago the Russian tanks rolled across the borders into Ukraine, shattering a peace that Europe had enjoyed since the war in the former Yugoslavia tore that region of our continent apart, more than 20 years ago.

THEY WERE formed in the turbulent years following the collapse of the Ceausescu regime in Romania, and in Ireland they survived the recession, and later, the lockdowns enforced by the Covid-19 pandemic.

AN EASTERN European folk song, transformed into a modern, soul-pinching, ethno-pop ballad - this is ‘Vershe’, the new single from Galway multicultural band Baba Yarga.

The European Union, and its lynchpin project, the euro, had a charmed existence in publicity terms during the worst of the Brexit years from 2016 to 2019.

VLADIMIR JABLOKOV’S 2020 captures many of the ups and downs, the obvious lows, and unexpected highs of this strange year, but above all, it encapsulates the sheer resilience of the arts in the face of the pandemic and lockdown.

It was not a great week for Irish fans as their dreams of participating at next year's European Championships ended in penalty shootout heartache in Bratislava against Slovakia. And the results did not improve with a drab 0-0 draw coming against Wales in Dublin on Sunday and another 1-0 defeat to Finland in Helsinki on Wednesday afternoon.