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TO CELEBRATE International Women’s Day, which this year celebrates its centenary, The Galway Film Society will screening the Iranian film Women Without Men.

Jim Higgins MEP this week pleaded with the powers that be in the emergency services to begin emblazoning the 112 emergency number on the side of Garda cars, ambulances, and fire engines. Speaking in Strasbourg where he was discussing the EU 112 Day which took place last Friday, he noted Ireland’s poor showing in the euro barometer results on awareness of the EU’s 112 number.

Latest Live Register figures, which show a 190 per cent increase in the numbers signing on across Kilkenny city and county since the last election are shocking and only reflect the tip of the iceberg, according to local Fine Gael Senator John Paul Phelan, who added that many more people have emigrated rather than face the humiliation of queuing for a living.

Connacht coach Eric Elwood will be hoping to continue the momentum set in last month’s final round of Challenge Cup games when they host the Scarlets on Saturday (7.35pm).

FILMS CELEBRATING women, the relationships between grandfathers, fathers, and sons, the sounds, style, and cultures of Cuba, Burlesque strip-tease performers will all feature in The Galway Film Society’s winter/spring season 2011.

Not everything was wasted during the Celtic Tiger years. Galway has benefited greatly from the motorway to Dublin, as well as the Gort by-pass, which gives motorists a clear run to Limerick on the impressive M18. No one will be sorry to see the end of the Crusheen right-angled turn under an impossible railway bridge. Artics needed the whole road to make the turn, causing delays and gasps of incredulity at the narrowness and the danger of it all.

The preservation and the teaching of the Irish language has often provoked a passionate defence, no more so than on the island of Tawin. At the beginning of the last century a fierce row erupted when local people felt that Irish was not being taught in their local school, and took matters into their own hands. Children were kept away from the school, and money was raised to have them taught separately in their own language. It became a cause celibre attracting the support of such nationalist figures as Roger Casement. The story has been well told by Nollaig Mac Congáil in the current issue of the Journal of the Galway Archaeological and Historical Society (Volume 62) which I will come back to next year.

The Alfa Romeo MiTo has been voted Best Supermini in this year’s What Car? Reader Awards, the only annual car awards in the UK and Ireland voted for solely by the car world’s most demanding critics: owners and potential customers. With an average star rating of 4.6 out of five, the MiTo not only topped the Supermini category but ranked third overall ahead of 167 competitors.

The Alfa Romeo MiTo has been voted Best Supermini in this year’s What Car? Reader Awards, the only annual car awards in the UK and Ireland voted for solely by the car world’s most demanding critics: owners and potential customers.

WHEN THE current recession first loomed just over two years ago, the general consensus by those of a certain age was that it was nothing compared to the dark days of the 1970s and 1980s.