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The all-new Golf, which goes on sale in Ireland in December will have a starting price of €19,995 for the Trendline three-door 1.2 TSI (petrol) and €22,695 for the Trendline 1.6 TDI (diesel) three-door, writes Padraic Deane.

Following a tennis party at the home of Mr J C Bagot JP, of Ballyturn House, near Gort, on May 15 1921, the IRA scored a devastating blow against the British forces. The local District Inspector, Captain Cecil Blake, his lady companion Eliza Williams; two officers, Capt Cornwallis and Lieutenant McCreery were shot dead in an ambush as they drove away from the house. The IRA party, probably as many as ten men, had taken up position in the gate lodge, and in the surrounding bushes. One gate was closed. The car had to stop to open it. At that moment the IRA opened fire. There was one survivor, Margaret Gregory, the widowed daughter-in-law of Lady Gregory.

An up-and-coming Athlone milliner got the opportunity of a lifetime last weekend when her designs were chosen to feature in one of the most high profile events in the Rose of Tralee.

SINGERS AND artists featured on the all-female vocal compilation album Café Irlandaise will be on stage at the Róisín Dubh on Friday August 17 at 8pm.

Recently referred to as “one of the country’s most exciting chefs” by Taste of Ireland, Jonathan Keane, head chef at Co Mayo’s boutique hotel, Lisloughrey Lodge, has overhauled the entire menu and is setting himself up for a challenge to showcase the wonders of the west.

Tá dlúthdhiosca Rí Rá le fáil saor in aisce ó oifig Chonradh na Gaeilge i nGaillimh. Tá ceoltóirí móra na linne seo, Bell X1, The Coronas, The Kanyu Tree, agus Delorentos i measc iad siúd atá le cloisteáil ar albam oifigiúil Sheachtain na Gaeilge 2012.

Six leading Galway businesses will compete for awards at the national final of the 2011 Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards.

Six leading Galway businesses will compete for awards at the national final of the 2011 Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards.

ANNETTE BUCKLEY, the Cork singer-songwriter, whose music has been called “haunting and deeply original” by the Irish Independent, plays Galway next week.

At a public seminar organised by the European Commission in Athlone this week, Economics Editor of the Irish Independent, Brendan Keenan, argued that, despite the fact that major political and institutional changes were still needed, the EU and the Eurozone countries have “moved back from the abyss of potential break-up”.