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This week marks the 25th UN International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, commemorating the date of the signing of the Montreal Protocol which brought about a global initiative to ban Ozone Depleting Substances. Two Irish scientific atmospheric monitoring stations have played a significant role assessing the planet’s success in saving the ozone layer.

The long awaited new Mondeo will go on sale here in Ireland in late November. It will be available in two series initially, Zetec and Titanium, and prices will start from €28,995. Body styles will include five-door and a wagon (estate) variant.

Suzuki Motor Corporation will give a global premiere of its new, small and stylish SUV model at the 2014 Paris Motor Show next month.

At 11.15am on September 3 1939, Neville Chamberlain went on radio to announce that Britain had declared war on Germany. Hitler was still hopeful of a diplomatic resolution and to this end, he issued strict orders for U-boats to follow the Prize Regulations under which attacks on passenger liners were prohibited. Unfortunately, the first ship that was sunk by a U-boat was the SS Athenia,  which was carrying 1,418 passengers and crew. She was about 200 miles off the west coast of Ireland at the time.

Information on more than 9,000 species inhabiting the Southern Ocean has been catalogued by scientists, including one from NUI Galway, in a new atlas which was launched in New Zealand on Monday.

When you have a name as iconic as Transit, you make the very best you can of it. And when it comes to vans, the blue oval badge and the Transit name are the best known in Ireland and Britain.

Two of Mayo's leading science minds have received funding of more than €1.2 million between them to lead their own major research projects at the forefront of the sustainable and renewable energy sector.

FIA RUA, the Galway folk-rock singer-songwriter launches his new album The Sky Went Low And The Sea Went High with a Galway Fringe Festival concert.

FIA RUA, the Galway folk-rock singer-songwriter launches his new album The Sky Went Low And The Sea Went High with a Galway Fringe Festival concert in Áras na nGael this Saturday [July 26] at 9pm. In advance of the show, listen to the new album, which is streamed here in it's entirety:

1. Know your enemy.