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Cadillac tells us its Escalade hybrid will be sold in Europe with an eight-year or 160,000 kilometre warranty on some specific hybrid components.

Cadillac tells us that their Escalade Hybrid will be sold in Europe with an eight-year or 160,000 kilometre warranty on some specific Hybrid components.

Average CO2 emissions from new cars in the EU dropped by almost four per cent last year, the second biggest annual fall recorded, a database published by the European Environment Agency shows.

NUIG’s contribution to Galway’s Bike Week Festival was a huge success with many opting to cycle to work as part of the university’s Cycle to Campus Day. Galway's Bike Week Festival runs from June 18 to 26 and this year the week was launched in Galway with a mass cycle, a bike village and many other events around the city. As part of NUI Galway's contribution to the festival, the green campus committee organised a university-wide Cycle to Campus Day yesterday.

To mark Galway’s Bike Week Festival, which runs from June 18 to 26, NUI Galway will be making its contribution with a university-wide Cycle to Campus Day.

Join Bóthar’s 32 county cycle and be part of a great new and exciting event. Spend a week in the company of like-minded people in a unique challenge that will take you to all of Ireland’s 32 counties; covering 570 miles in just seven days. If you are a keen leisure cyclist looking for a spectacular week long challenge, this is the event for you. Daily stages range from 60 to 100 miles at an average cycling speed of 12 to 15 miles per hour. Reach new targets, meet new friends and look back at year’s end with a great sense of achievement.

Would you like to take up cycling but don’t know where to start?

Mayo schools will join thousands of students across Ireland next week by taking part in National Walk to School Week 2011, which takes place from May 16 to 20. Lots of schools have decided to celebrate the week in their own unique way by creating special walking buses, participating in walking tours, walking fitness workshops, Park’N’Stride events and nature walks - with the ultimate aim of increasing the number of students who make the school journey on foot during the week. An Taisce’s Green-Schools Travel programme’s Walk to School Week is a countrywide initiative which will result in thousands of pupils, their parents and teachers walking to and from school, to promote the environmental, health, social and financial benefits of active travel on the school journey.

Clifden will play host to some of the biggest names in Irish sport this week as the inaugural Tour de Conamara cycle gets underway. Former Irish rugby captain Mick Galwey, former Galway hurling captain Ollie Canning, double All-Ireland football winners Jarlath Fallon and Seán Ó Domhnaill, and former Mayo football manager John Maughan are among those taking part. The sportsmen are participating as part of their upcoming Race the Rás charity event.

Some big names in Irish sport arrive in Clifden this weekend for the inaugural Tour de Conamara cycle.