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A local recruitment agency is spearheading a drive to sign up 70 Irish nurses to work in public hospitals in New South Wales.

The Ford Fiesta Econetic 1.6 TDCi has won the 2012 ALD Automotive MPG Marathon, clocking up 108.78mpg over a 370-mile route involving tough, real-world driving in challenging weather conditions.

A PRINT exhibition to coincide with St Patrick’s Day and to highlight Ireland’s cultural links with America, Australia, and New Zealand, opens tomorrow.

The last of Connacht’s major new recruits for next season was completed on Tuesday when former Scottish international Dan Parks agreed to join the Irish province.

WELSH THEATRE group, Company of Sirens, visit the Town Hall studio next week with Mark Ryan’s bold and accomplished play Sean Tyrone. Although his name may not be familiar to Irish audiences, Ryan – who died earlier this year – had a remarkable career as a musician, composer, and playwright.

Former international swimmer Deirdre Hughes has beaten the best in the world in their own back yard last week, winning five gold medals in the New South Wales Masters State Championships in Australia.

Gort gymnast Molly Nightingale has set her sights on competing for the 2010 World Championships in tumbling gymnastics after qualifying for the event last weekend.

My Sauce Good is a tasty Australian acoustic trio of violin, vocals, and guitar, playing addictive French swing, original tunes, soulful Latin-American folksong, a haunting Hebrew lullaby, Bohemian jazz from the 1920s onwards, and contemporary songs given a new lease of life.

One of the most distinctive voices in the world of music is coming to the Royal Theatre, Castlebar on Sunday December 21. Gaynor Hopkins was born in South Wales where her father worked in a coal mine and her mother shared her love for music with her family of four girls and two boys. Having tried out the stage name of Sherene Davies in the early stages of her career, the talented youngster eventually decided to call herself Bonnie Tyler.

Nurses from Kilkenny travelling to Australia this year are being urged to avail of interviews taking place in the county early next month. ICE Group has been appointed by the New South Wales Department of Health to recruit 150 Irish registered psychiatric nurses for a new forensic hospital in Sydney.