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Skoda has built the 1,500,000th second generation Octavia. The anniversary vehicle - a white Octavia Combi of the GreenLine version - rolled off the assembly line at the company's main plant in the Czech Republic.

Seán Costello, the nationally acclaimed tenor and star of the Mario Lanza tribute The Loveliest Night Of The Year, returns this December with last year’s sell out Christmas favourite A Viennese Christmas.

MEP for the North West, Jim Higgins, has welcomed continuing progress by the EU in addressing youth unemployment under its Europe 2020 strategy commitments, but says citizens want to see real results.

The European Commission’s latest car price report shows that real car prices (price change set against inflation) in Ireland fell by 5.7 per cent in 2010. This is the third biggest drop in the Eurozone and well above the -1.5 per cent Eurozone average.

The European Commission’s latest car price report shows that real car prices (price change set against inflation) in Ireland fell by 5.7 per cent in 2010. This is the third biggest drop in the Eurozone and well above the -1.5 per cent eurozone average. Car prices fell in almost every EU country in 2010. Taking all EU countries together, the average drop in car prices is 2.5 per cent in real terms in 2010. List prices for new cars also converged slightly. These long-term price trends support the Commission's decision last year that specific competition rules for the sale of new cars are no longer justified.

• Galway sports stars Ollie Canning, Sean O Domhnaill and Ja Fallon are taking part in the 148km first stage of the ‘Race The Rás’ charity cycle in aid of GOAL and The Irish Cancer Society from Dunboyne to Portumna on Sunday. The three will begin each of the stages three hours before the professional riders begin their leg of the tour, which finishes in Skerries on Sunday week. In total, almost 100 members of the public will join more than 50 current and former GAA personalities to cycle at least one stage of the tour. They are hoping to raise in excess of €100,000 for the two organisations. Other GAA stars who have confirmed their participation include Sean Og Ó hÁilpín and Brian Corcoran, ex-Kilkenny star DJ Carey, Clare’s Tony Griffin and ex-Irish rugby international, Mick Galwey.

VLADIMIR JABLOKOV is a violin virtuoso, from a classical music family in Slovakia, who enjoys putting contemporary spin on the classics, be they Bowie or Bach.

A 36-year-old man who tried to evade gardaí after they followed him because he was on the wrong side of the road, was disqualified from driving for two years at this week’s sitting of Castlebar District Court after he was convicted of drink driving and dangerous driving.

This Saturday, March 26 Kilkenny City will host the EGSA European Kettlebell Sports Competition. 70 competitors from various clubs throughout Ireland, UK, Sweden, Finland, Portugal, Spain, Latvia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Ukraine will take part in the event which is hosted by the Kilkenny Kettlebell Club.

Daniel Skukalek of AIT has been crowned the 2011 Knorr Student Chef of the Year at the competition’s final held in Limerick Institute of Technology. Now in its 14th year, the competition recognises outstanding talent from around Ireland’s catering colleges. Previous winners have gone on to work in some of Ireland and Europe’s top restaurants.